A visit to Pioneer Square on the first Thursday in December will reveal something that looks like it came straight out of a movie: a fire barrel.
But instead of producing real flames to keep people warm, this sculpture plays a stop-motion video of a fire on a translucent monitor. One quarter buys 20 seconds of these faux flames. Britta Johnson, the artist behind the sculpture “Heat Transfer,” is fighting against homelessness in Seattle through this piece that collects spare change on their behalf.