Andrea Catrell is a self-described extreme hobbyist.
By day, the 46-year-old Bellingham resident and mom of two is a nurse practitioner. By night (or rather, a recent weekend in September), she’s scanning the asphalt of Bremerton’s Evergreen Rotary Park in search of a giant face.
Eventually, she finds a coffee table-sized mass of sculpted asphalt behind a wooden fence by a parking lot. Over 50 years ago, a young artist named Robert Larkin Chollar shaped the asphalt until it resembled a humanoid form. In the present day, the face is so nondescript that you could visit the park dozens of times and never notice it was there.
Finding the sculpture is only part of Catrell’s goal. The other is documenting it on the Found Washington map , a digital archive of unusual landmarks all across the state, and sharing it with a growing community of fellow whimsy-lovers.
“It really opens up this kind of new world,” said Catrell, who began tracking the landmarks a little over a year ago.…