Background research and community outreach informs my overall approach. The concept draws on documented regional history, current maps, and environmental issues, along with conversations with residents and business owners, meetings with stakeholder groups and numerous walks through Edmonds’ downtown, cultural district, waterfront and parks.

Building on this framework, strategies to solicit community input on the patterning of lifeboat and mapping of seawall include a survey and interactive blog that will collect descriptions, images and sounds of residents’ favorite area flora and fauna. The collected imagery will be digitized and incorporated into vinyl graphics affixed to wall and suspension.