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| Stone wall by the artist.1998 |
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There are two carved Vermont marble jet forms. Each Jet sits atop a 70' x 4.5" wall made of Connecticut fieldstone. There is a red line, a flight path, made of Vermont red slate that runs along the top of each wall. At the carved jets the two walls are 16 feet apart. Between the carved jets is a bench. The bench is a bronzed trio of tourist class airliner seats. |
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| Rock and Rail. Installation by the artist. 1996 |
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| Over a seventy-foot length the two walls converge to form a 20" wide gate. At the gate is another pair of walls, each going off at a 30-degree angle. These walls are also fieldstone. They consist of six intersecting broken circles. Walking through the gate leads to the other side of the broken circle walls. Passing through the gate one stands on a large natural landing stone. The date: 9/11, the flight numbers: 11 and 175, and a poem are carved into this landing stone. |
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| Stone garden bench with poem by the artist .1994 |
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Stepping on the landing stone one is in the shade of a large maple tree. Walking around the tree, along the walls, one sees one-inch thick glass tablets with the names of the victims etched and illuminated by fiber optics. The glass tablets with names are four feet long and two feet high. They are mounted on the stonewall with brass bolts so that the etched names are two inches 'proud' of the fieldstone face. This will allow the names to float in front of the wall and in certain sun conditions, the names in shadow form, will move across the stones. Each broken circle arc creates a 'room' of names on glass tablets. In each room is a large natural boulder of gneiss or granite, with a sawn and polished top. The sawn boulders serve as benches for visitors to sit and read the names. |
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Six tall thin junipers stand along the wall at the points where the broken circles intersect. The pathways are paved with crushed quartzite. The landforms around the piece are contoured to focus on the images created.The surrounding area contains a scattering of natural boulders and is sewn with a mixture of native grasses and New England wildflowers that will flower continuously through the seasons, peaking each autumn. The dead grasses will be left through the winter to be cut down each spring.
The meadow flowers include swamp milkweed, American columbine, asters, yellow star grass, and others chosen to thrive in the urban environment. The outer border will be a natural planting of scrubby pine and birches. |
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