Margie Slovan

Unmatched Ingenuity

Unmatched Ingenuity

Edwin Fountain’s artistic innovations can be seen all over south Seattle

This tree is dead — Seattle Parks and Recreation had decapitated it — but to Edwin Fountain, it is a canvas. A piece of marble. A sculpture waiting to emerge. I ask him what it’s going to be.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I’m waiting for it to tell me.”

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