Project 2 Historic Installation

At the turn of the 20th century, Tacoma was a shipping powerhouse. According to a Tacoma Daily Ledger of 1904, it was the fourth largest export port for wheat and the largest on the west coast. At the time, most grain goods that were sold in bulk to the public, were sold in burlap or woven bags. West Coast Grocery and Birmingham Hay & Seed were two large store houses for such things and would have contained large volumes of these bags filled with coffee and grains. Essentially these buildings were built on the foundation (metaphoric) of providing supplies. To represent this I propose to position concrete sculptures (in the shape of burlap bags) near the foundation (literal) of the WCG building.