One of three Listening Trumpets at Cooper Mountain Nature Park. Photo: Jaime Valdez
Listening Trumpets
We fabricated the steel trumpet forms and machined the stainless steel earpieces from Christine Bourdette’s artistic design.
Cooper Mountain Nature Park · Beaverton, Oregon- Artistic concept
- Christine Bourdette
- Fabrication
- Western Iron Works
- Materials
- Rusted mild steel, stainless steel
- Dimensions
- 62–72″ high × 22″ × 32″
- Series
- Three listening sculptures
The artwork
Listening to the park
Christine Bourdette designed Listening Trumpets to encourage visitors to pause and listen to the natural sounds of Cooper Mountain Nature Park.
Three trumpet-shaped sculptures are placed throughout the park. Visitors bring an ear to the small stainless steel end to listen to their surroundings.
Artistic concept: Christine Bourdette
Our work
Fabricating the trumpets
We fabricated the trumpet forms from ¼-inch A36 steel plate and machined the stainless steel earpieces at the narrow ends.
- Trumpet bodies
- ¼″ (0.250″) A36 steel plate
- Listening ends
- Machined stainless steel earpieces
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