Seattle Monolith
Joy Mallory and her daughter, Nakesha Beith, 4, test the sturdiness of a mystery monolith as other curious spectators circle the 9-foot-tall steel sculpture which stands on a grassy noll in Magnuson Park, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2001, in Seattle. No one knows who installed the sculpture, reminscent of the structure in the landmark science fiction movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The unmarked sculpture appears to have been put in place on New Year's Eve. There is no plaque or other clue to the sculptor.
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Monolith disappears from Seattle park
Wednesday, January 3, 2001
By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Seattle's newest anonymous art -- a 9-foot-tall smooth steel block planted atop Kite Hill in Magnuson Park -- has disappeared just as mysteriously as it appeared on New Year's Eve.
The disappearance was discovered Wednesday morning. Park officials said they have no idea how or when it disappeared. All that's left in its place is a large rectangular indentation, some candle wax and flowers.
In the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," the appearance of a black monolith caused or portended radical shifts in human evolution, from the ape-to-man jump at the film's outset to the human-to-star-child transformation at the end.
