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"Ripple Effects " |
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Earthwork roughly 700 feet square plus 270-foot long masonry retaining wall with stone, brick, corten steel. 1998 with ongoing reclamation. |
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The earthen ripples are patterned after the waves created when a pebble is dropped in a pond, emanating from the center, except in this case the center is a bench area for viewers. The concept is based on the idea of one's actions having effects that ripple throughout time. The art is also a reclamation project, since the site was a dump for sugar beet waste. Brick and steel details in the wall refer to this industrial past. It is being reseeded slowly with dryland grasses without irrigation so that the ripples are eventually to be seen in prairie grasses. |
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