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  • COURTESY SIERRA STINSON AND GRAHAM DOWNING
One night recently, and for only one night, there was an art exhibition at the historic Egan House, that modernist cantilevered triangle that sits alone like a spaceship in the forest between Capitol Hill and Eastlake. Every time new guests arrived, they'd announce that somebody's car lights were on in the driveway. But the lights were part of the art. Graham Downing, one of the artists, owned the car and allowed the lights to die slowly as the battery drained. The car was parked facing a poster of a sunset, and as the sun went down in the real sky, the headlights went down on the poster sunset. The exhibition of 26 Seattle artists, which continued indoors, was called Sun Worshipers. "I have a theory," Sierra Stinson writes in the limited-edition book she made for the exhibition. "Seattle is full of sun worshipers."

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