Interpreters is a series of plaques that honor the sacred sites all around us that we all too often fail to recognize. Go to any geological or anthropological dig site and you’ll see plaques abounding at every corner extolling the crumbled site of an 1000 year old trading post or the faded rectangle experts now believe to be the site of an ancient Greek public bathroom, but where are the plaques for the ephemera of our contemporary lives? Interpreters seeks to begin righting this oversight, each one extolling the site not just for what it is, but for what it symbolizes.

Located in the Licton Springs neighborhood in Seattle, WA, Interpreters was commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and the Seattle Department of Transportation through their “Art Interruptions” temporary public art program. The series will be up from September 2020-August 2021. Go take a walk using the map below to find the sites and the plaques that which illuminate them.