Elders' Cove

Collaboration with Angelo Ciotti
West Palm Beach, Florida
14' x 9' x 5'
2004
Concrete, Moss, Ferns, Water

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In collaboration with communities, scientists, design professionals, educators, and local governments I create vegetated sculptural systems that clean polluted water and encourage community awareness about the urgency of restoring health to earth’s waters. My living sculptures, called Biosculptures™, use natural systems technology to provide ecological and aesthetic solutions to water quality and water quantity problems in urban and rural contexts.

Biosculptures™ are biogeochemical filters that demonstrate how natural systems have the capacity to use pollutants and toxins as nutrients and resources--cleaning the air and purifying water in the process.

Recent and Current projects include:
Near Dresden, in Grossenhain, Germany, “The Gift of Water” is part of the constructed wetland that provides the only filtration for the town’s very large municipal swimming pool --no chemicals or chlorine, just plants!

Working in collaboration with Angelo Ciotti in 130 acre Dreher Park, in West Palm Beach, FL we created Elder’s Cove, a landscape and sculpture complex that includes the Elders’ Cove Biosculpture (left), sculpted mounds that reclaim excavated soil from flood control ponds, cypress islands that recall the original Everglades ecosystem of the site, and a playground inspired by Seminole culture.

Other ongoing projects include Laughing Brook in Salway Park, Cincinnati, OH; the Living Map in Ruth Park Woods, St. Louis, MO; and McKeesport Trail, Pittsburgh, PA, Elders’ Cove Biosculpture.