In Memory of My Father, Nai-Ling Cheng
In situ photograph of STEP Nine Columns/Nine Artists Project in Terminal A of Seattle-Tacoma Internationall Airport.

I took as my inspiration for this project the fact that Sea-Tac is a major gateway for travel to and from the Far East. Embedded in a background of convex spheres emerge two line-drawn Chinese dragons. The twenty-foot tall, three-foot diameter column is banded in two places by gold designs placed against a turquoise background. Scattered amidst the regularity of the background geometry are irregular dotted splotches of gold and deep blue which form another visual layer to a design that relies on a sense of layering for its visual complexity.