06/17/2026
IT'S ALIVE!
Check out the live auction for all the Art Soccer Balls including mine that were created for the Lynnwood Arts Commission in honor of this year's FIFA World Cup.
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‘The Lynnwood Orb’
“Originally discovered half-buried in Scriber Lake in 1976 by Franz Arantes while on a weekend outing with his family, the Aranteses having migrated from Philadelphia so that Franz could work on the Alderwood Mall, the artifact that quickly became known simply as The Lynnwood Orb captured the curiosity and imagination of an entire planet.
And for the billions of global fans of the team sport we sometimes call soccer, that curiosity and imagination was at a significantly high level… The Lynnwood Orb without question resembled a soccer ball.
Research scientists from every branch, from every sector and from every nation expressed interest in wanting to help study it, to help understand it and ultimately to fundamentally help build its story to be shared with the world.
The mysteriously detailed metallic sphere has toured the globe several times over, been examined and tested by hundreds of individuals, sparking enough wonder to have been documented or interpreted by countless professional photographic journalists and visual artists and been awarded Object of the Year for a record 37 times by the prestigious Intercontinental Design Federation.
To this day, however, The Lynnwood Orb’s purpose has not been confirmed, its physical properties and materiality have not been determined and its origin has not been established.
Is it alien-tech? Is it a time traveling ball from a future World Cup match? What do the markings and glyphs on its surface mean? Why Lynnwood, Washington, why Scriber Lake and why 1976? Did it or its makers somehow manage to intentionally select Franz Arantes as its caretaker?
Its presence over the decades has raised a multitude of questions and hypotheses as much as it has cross-culturally solidified something genuinely amazing about humans: extraordinarily beautiful things happen when we unite and imagine together.”
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Instead of Diversity, I focused on Common Lore. With intelligence, craft and humor, I created ‘The Lynnwood Orb’. Poking lighthearted fun at the Pacific Northwest’s cross-cultural interests in the lore of aliens and occult/mythology, the work appears metallic bronze/brass and is covered in detailed markings and glyphs of unknown origin. Its purpose unknown… hence an artifact For Everyone to Imagine.
(Includes ball, framed print of faux-history document and ball stand.)
Silent auction 'Soccer Balls' hosted online at 32auctions.
