SEATTLE — Compiling the best of Seattle fall arts leaves me torn every year. I’m never ready to say goodbye to summer, but can’t wait to discover the museum and gallery exhibits waiting on the other side of 7 p.m. sunsets. This year’s visual arts lineup is so stacked — and so great — culling was difficult, so I opted to weave shows together into themes. Use these not as boxes, but keys to unlock new connections and open up new meanings — a puzzle meant to be constantly rearranged.

Body of work

Seattle artist Matthew Deane Parker sculpts featherweight boulders out of construction foam, which he whittles into shape and paints to look like rocks, on view in “Hard Body ( through Oct. 17; Gallery 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S.). The Sisyphean effort is both a function of “creating a body

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