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Description:
The flood wash
that bisects this private development is a wild streak running
through an otherwise paved and tamed corner of the Papago Park. The
stone bridge refers to the long history of irrigation in and around
this site. Water flows across the bridge in steel "trough handrails"
and returns to the pond below.
Funding:
This project was
funded by Sunstate Builders to comply with the city of Tempe’s Art
in Private Development ordinance.
Artist
biography:
Laurie
Lundquist is an artist and educator who brings a deep interest in
natural systems and engineering to the design process. Environmental
issues are often a subtext in her sculptural installations and
planning process. Lundquist's work is concept driven, she chooses
from a wide variety of materials and methods to integrate art works
into a given site. She believes that designing artwork into
municipal projects can reinforce connection to place by drawing on
specific observations, local memories and visible landmarks to
underscore the identity of a given place. As a design team artist,
Lundquist has collaborated effectively with architects engineers and
planners to integrate art into the overall design of numerous public
projects.
Artist
statement:
"Connection to place is a powerful elemental relationship that
influences our way of being in the world. As an artist I aspire to
design places or circumstances that will trigger a sense of
connection to our surroundings. Place making in the urban
environment becomes a vehicle for reinforcing my own relationship to
the city and hopefully empowers other people in the same way." |
