This fall, I will be designing and creating erosion control sculptures at Freedom Park on Little Sugar Creek in Charlotte, North Carolina. The sculptures will be installed adjacent to a footpath, in a highly traveled public area that affords multi-use pedestrian access along the Little Sugar Creek greenway. I’ll be doing this project as part of my fall 2009 artist residency at McColl Center for Visual Art and will be collaborating with the Catawba Lands Conservancy/Carolina Thread Trail, Park and Recreation Department/Mecklenburg County Government, Charlotte Nature Museum and Queens University of Charlotte to create a site-specific sculpture installation in the park. My woven sculptures are designed to give an ecological advantage to the Catawba watershed at Little Sugar Creek. As an environmental installation artist, I design and manage the fabrication and installation of restorative art projects on public lands in urban and rural areas.
In my projects, I work in collaboration with professionals in the fields of environmental design, landscape architecture and ecological restoration. This work is intended to encourage public awareness of ecological restoration opportunities. In this process, integration and cooperation of diverse stakeholders is essential. Government bodies, private landowners, concerned citizens, regulatory agencies and funding organizations, are all players in this watershed experience.
The sculptural components I create affect the balance of riparian environment in measurable ways. They give advantage to compromised systems, and after a period of time, as the restoration process is established, it is my intention that the artist's presence on the watershed is no longer felt.
-Daniel
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