Seattle artist Shawn Patrick Landis built a backyard inside the
gallery: a wood fence, a fire pit, a grill, a folding chair, a
parked motorcycle. Each component wears an inflated transparent box
stuck to its side like a growth. A thicket of big, wormy inflation
tubes
gums up the scene, making you walk carefully through the
alien setting. Each box is a thought bubble whose contents are open to
interpretation. (Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl S,

296-8674. 9 am–5 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...