Kerf (sculpture)

{{Short description|Sculpture in Portland, Oregon}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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Kerf is an outdoor series of two pigmented cast concrete sculptures by Thomas Sayre, installed at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek station in the southeast Portland, Oregon portion of the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, which straddles the border between Portland (and Multnomah County) and Milwaukie, Oregon (and Clackamas County).

According to TriMet, the pieces were "earth-cast" on site and represent "the influence of wheels on the area, from a 19th-century sawmill on Johnson Creek to the wheels of the MAX train".{{cite web|title=Public Art on MAX Orange Line|url=http://trimet.org/publicart/orangeline.htm#system|publisher=TriMet|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-date=October 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026132551/http://trimet.org/publicart/orangeline.htm#system|url-status=live}}

File:SE Tacoma & Johnson Creek MAX Station.jpg, March 2016]]