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Artwork / Greater Seattle

Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks

KentA circular pond with a grassy ring-shaped mound at its centre, surrounded by green lawn and bare winter trees.
Double Ring Pond, Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks, 2024. Photograph: Roc0ast3r · CC0
Permanent collection

Herbert Bayer’s Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks shapes circles, cones, berms and channels into a stormwater detention system at the entrance to a Kent park. The forms move and temporarily hold water.

The work

Mown geometric forms meet woodland, with concrete elements and a wooden bridge.

Before you go

In wet weather the forms fill and the drainage system can be seen working. Stay out of them when flooded.

Sources and provenance +

Research baseline: November 6, 2026. Physical access and exhibition schedules may change.