(upbeat music) - I'm Starla Sampaco in the Crosscut KCTS 9 newsroom.

Seattle artists Casey Curran has constructed tall wooden towers in South Lake Union's MadArt Gallery.

From thousands of strips of fiberboard, he's built a grid of 20 Jenga-type structures of varying heights, some reaching eight feet high, for his exhibition, "Parable of Gravity."

"They're my stand-ins for industry," he says, referring to the many Seattle towers recently built and still under construction, but something's gone awry in the grid.

Some of the structures appear to be disintegrating from the top down, but there's a glimmer of regeneration, an otherworldly garden, a field of delicate white flowers rooted atop brass wires grows from the destruction.

Curran carefully crafted the flowers out of white laser cut polyester paper.

A motorized lever system makes the petals move, as with the sun.

The exhibit runs through April 11 and is, says Curran, "about humanity's greatest failures and successes "all wrapped into these cycles."

I'm Starla Sampaco.

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