Thomas and Central

Brian Goldbloom / Amboy, WA

Thomas station lies in the heart of the Central Avenue business district. Surrounded by imposing buildings with lush landscaping dense with palm trees, Washington artist Brian Goldbloom designed art work that touched on the evolution of desert into a modern urban oasis.

Marking the change is a series of granite cylinders framed in the entryway railings. The smooth cylinders have a definite weight, yet as you slowly turn them you will see in the sequence of the intricate carvings the eventual emergence by degrees of the presence of water, indications of life and, finally, details of an encroaching civilization.

The sequential nature of the carvings on these stones requires that viewers keep moving along the walkway in order to gradually transition to the “oasis”.

In addition to the turning stones, Goldbloom created a series of granite benches, each approximately 4 feet square. These continue the story of water on the landscape, each depicting a narrow boulder-strewn stream bed, touched by