Public Art > Groundswell

2012; painted steel and wood; 20 x 85 x 45 inches (tree guard),

24 x 100 x 55 inches (tree guard with bench)

In fall 2012, the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership

selected artists’ designs for the panels of new tree guards

along Myrtle Avenue, a major thoroughfare, in the

neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

Each design was laser-cut in steel to form

the four panels of a tree guard.

My design was inspired by the physical location of the panels,

being close to the ground, which suggested essential relationships:

Water and nutrients in soil—and the carbon dioxide that we exhale—

feed the trees, and the trees feed us oxygen.