How did Mary Ann Peters and MKNZ make this? Were they suspended from the ceiling?
The first couple times I walked by this at the Out of Sight show, I didn't even think it was art. Wow, was I wrong. Christopher Frizzelle

First of all: The Seattle Art Fair is amazing. This is the best idea Paul Allen's had in a long time. And I love that it's happening Seafair weekend, the weekend when Seattle basically puts on a play about itself. The streets are full of sailors, the skies are full of jets. Perfect for all the out-of-towners from LA and New York. There is so much, I didn't get to see all of it yesterday, so I'm going back this afternoon. If you haven't checked it out yet, go!!

One of the many great things about a big fair like this is, as Jen Graves will tell you, that it inspires satellite fairs, too. Taking my cues from Jen, I stopped by the Out of Sight exhibition of local artists at King Street Station (on the opposite side of Sounders field from where the official fair is happening), which is also fantastic. I've never seen art on the second floor of King Street Station before. Can this be a permanent art venue, please?

For the first hour I was there, I was thinking mostly about the piece by C. Davida Ingram ("Where Can My Black Ass Go to Be Safe?"), and also eye-catching pieces by Joey Veltkamp and Jennifer Zwick and Francisco Guerrero, all the while also thinking, vaguely, "Too bad about the boring plaster cast of rug in the corner."

Then someone asked if I had seen "the flour," and I thought they said "flower," referring to the flowers in Veltkamp's quilt. Then someone made it very clear to me: There was an amazing piece made out of flour in the corner of the room that I had to go look at, and I went back to look at it, and they were right.

How did Mary Ann Peters and MKNZ make this? Were they suspended from the ceiling?
How did Mary Ann Peters and MKNZ make this? Were they suspended from the ceiling? It's huge. Here's one corner. Christopher Frizzelle

Whoa. What is this? A patterned rug made of flour? A tin ceiling made of flour? A gigantic future pastry? What I'd thought was construction detritus or a sheet of plaster siding in fact turned out to be this delicate and intricate and probably impossibly hard to install piece by Mary Ann Peters and MKNZ. The detail is not coming through very well with my cell-phone pics.

You ought to just go look at it yourself. But don't forget to also to go Seattle Art Fair itself.

And there's a whole calendar of events associated with Seattle Art Fair right here.