flume

Located in the Oak Tree Park north end meadow bracketed by the playground and South 74^th Street, flume is a landmark environmental sculpture with landscaping.  Conceived as a split weathering steel pipe with regional flora and fauna waterjet cut into the upper edges, the piece frames a indigenous landscape filled with blue flowering plants (blue camas, common blue-cup, Blue-eyed Mary, etc).  

The piece would be constructed as a pair of large weathering steel plates rolled into semi-circular ‘brackets’ to form a flume-like ark.  Flowing through the middle of the piece would be a ‘stream’ of blue-themed flowering plants & grasses framed with smaller boulders & berms, giving the whole piece the sense of a boat-like structure flowing down a river.

Incised in the upper 3^rd of each pipe-like bracket would be depictions of flora & fauna native to the area & Garry Oak habitat.  Like our recently-completed Vancouver BC project, earthgrove this lifeform latticework can be read against the sky as a map with a corresponding deciphering website such as www.earthgrove.net  

Overall scale would be ½” thick cor-ten @ roughly 10-12’ long x 6-7’ high.  Alternate location might be quarry.  Need to develop a low/no maintenance plant list of native flowering perennials, grasses and low shrubs.  Drought-tolerant and bee-friendly are bonuses.