* Astronomy

You have to kick aside the fallen leaves to find a small marker identifying the Department of Forensic Morphology Annex, a four-year-old installation just south of the UW Law School. Students scurry by to their classes, seemingly oblivious (or accustomed) to the stainless-steel blob, which looks like something Buckminster Fuller mightve designed for Woody Allens Sleeper. But credit goes to local artist Cris Bruch, with an assist from the Washington State Arts Commission. With a skin of metal plates held together with steel stitches, DFMA suggests both snail shell and igloo, armadillo and Dr. Seuss.

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