Back in 1982, Andy Warhol was the most famous of the artists who applied to have his work on top of the Tacoma Dome. (George Segal was second-most-famous.) Warhol didn't win: The choosers instead chose a neon roof installation by Stephen Antonakos, which had to be moved indoors when the roofmakers refused to guarantee the roof if the heavy neon art went on it.

Nothing but a bunch of painted diamonds went on the roof of the poor dome.

But now, according to a story in The News Tribune, Tacoma artist and public-art admin Amy McBride has contacted the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to see whether Warhol's original proposal might finally make its way to the top of the Tacoma Dome—one day. The dome doesn't need a new roof yet. And when it does, who'd pay for the Warhol is anyone's guess.

But Dean Koepfler's photograph is convincing, cleverly embedding the red-orange flower dome in the blue-green-gray landscape of downtown Tacoma itself. (Click on it to enlarge the picture.)

You'd only see the whole flower if you were flying above. But imagine the color! And hey: Biggest Warhol Ever?