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Peek inside 12th Ave’s shuttered plumbing shop to see this art installation

A temporary art installation has popped up behind the boarded up windows of a longtime plumbing business on 12th Ave. You can’t go inside, but a dozen holes drilled into the outside of the soon-to-be demolished house offer several vantage points of the diorama.

Developers of a mixed-use project that will replace the structure opened the house to artists from the Seattle Demo Project. Over the course of one recent Saturday the artists used some of the materials left behind by Jay Frees Plumbing and Heating to create the installation.

“We wanted to use elements from the plumbing shop,” said artist Max Bemberg. “It just looks like this tiny house, but it has a weird history to it.” The group was behind the 2015 project in the Central DistrictWe are the Ghosts.

The Seattle Demo Project is a “collective of artists, designers and architects who engage soon-to-be-demolished structures as a place of cultural exploration,” according to the group’s website.

Jay Frees Plumbing and Heating occupied the transformed single-family house for decades, which today is sits sandwiched between two apartment complexes. A duo of industrious microhousing developers are in the early stages of planning a mixed-use development on the narrow property, located betweenE. Olive St and E. Howell. Kelten Johnson and Tyler Carr are planning a 20-unit building with a small commercial space.

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