Natural Recall, 1986-1987

Mike DeVoe
American (born 1947)

Location: Weyerhaeuser Elementary, Eatonville

About the Artwork

Natural Recall is a painted wood sculpture by artist Mike DeVoe. He chose a variety of fish species while also keeping their size in scale to each other. Devoe notes, "I use fish images in much of my art for their three-dimensional suppleness, and in this piece in particular, for the directedness that fish have in common with birds. There is a Zen saying that fish fly through the sea as birds swim through the air." We do not currently have a digitized image of this artwork.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Eatonville School District.

About the Artist

Mike Devoe creates figurative sculptures. He lives and works on Vashon Island in South Puget Sound, Western Washington. Devoe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1973.