PORT ANGELES — They know who they are.
And now, so does everyone else.
Ordinary folks doing ordinary things are captured by Port Angeles sculptor Bob Stokes in 16 abstract steel sculptures in 11 settings on the Avenue of the People.
The permanent outdoor art display — funded with $40,000 from city lodging tax revenues and another $20,000 in private donations — is on the west side of North Laurel Street between First Street and Railroad Avenue.
The sculptures were unveiled Saturday evening, during the Heritage Weekend festivities, having been shrouded in sheets since the day before.
Most of those who posed for them were there.
“I didn’t remember being that huge. But I guess I was,” said Lily Neal of Port Angeles.
Neal was a few days away from giving birth to her daughter, Percephone, when she posed for Stokes 14 months ago.
Holding Percephone in her arms, Neal said she posed for the sculpture for her daughter.
“I thought it would be cool to show her when she is older, what a little tiny figure she was in my belly.”
Stokes, who began working on the project in September 2006, said each sculpture is meant to capture an individual’s body language.
“The interpretation you can make when you see it is your own judgment call,” he said.
