LAKE OSWEGO -- Lake Oswego residents have voted to keep Maria Wickwire's figurative sculpture, "Anillos" for the city's permanent art collection, said Susan Bitzer, acting director of the Lake Oswego Foundation for the Arts. The work, of fired ceramic clay, has been at A Avenue and First Street since last fall when the latest display of sculptures arrived on city streets. The stated price is $7,000.

Works in "Gallery Without Walls," as the nonprofit foundation calls the display, usually remain on city streets for about two years.

Each year, residents vote online or deliver ballots to City Hall to select the "People's Choice" artwork.

Wickwire, of Battle Ground, Wash., said the circular lines in her ceramic sculpture evoke the rings indicating the history of a tree. They are likelife experiences written in the cells of our bodies, she said.

Public tastes often favor figurative work. Past choices include Ken Patecky's "Sunbathers," a mother and child work in concrete; Alisa Looney's "Going for Your Vision," a fabricated steel athletic figure, painted red, and Jim Demetro's "First Footsteps," a cast bronze of a mother holding the hands of a walking child.