Milkweed Phenology, Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent, New York
Corten steel, wood.
Each panel measures 16” wide by 20” high, series of 6 panels describing stages of the Milkweed plant.
Milkweed Phenology, 2022
This piece was the result of the Folly Field Residency, a collaboration between Millay Arts, Austerlitz, New York, and Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, New York. The design of the work was inspired by conversations with research scientists on site at the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program. The Milkweed plant is ubiquitous at the farm. The 6 forms on the panels describe its various stages through early spring to late fall. I was intrigued by the dramatic changes of the plant’s form over time and how it serves its purpose in seeding the surrounding area. The path is a walkway between the farm center and the research center.
Look Up
It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks
The New York City Parks Department
October, 2017
6 wooden panels on steel frames. Each panel measures 14” x 18.”
Panels show silhouettes of the 5 most common birds and tree species found in Central Park.
Rockaway Tales, 2017
Rockaway Tales is an interactive storytelling piece. It is an app that launches stories about Hurricane Sandy as told by residents of Rockaway who experienced Hurricane Sandy first-hand. This app launches stories on-site where they took place. The idea is to bring the viewer into the location of the event. The stories can be experienced while walking through the neighborhood.
These stories about Hurricane Sandy and a description of the project are included in an essay by Patty Harris in Bridging Communities Through Socially Engaged Art, edited by Alice Wexler and Vida Sabbaghi, Routledge, 2018.
The Rockaway Barrier Beautification Project, 2013
Ride the Wave, created by Patty Harris, was a mural designed to cover the barriers along Shore Parkway from 86th Street to 98 Street in the Rockaways. The mural project was sponsored by the New York City Parks Department in summer 2013. It was a competition to design a stretch of murals between 76th and 107th Street that covered 1.5 miles. The 3 Artists who were awarded this opportunity were Jade Chin, John Garcia, and Patty Harris. The mural project was a response to the destruction wrought along the beachfront by Hurricane Sandy in the fall of 2012. The Parks Department had over 250 volunteers as well as local workers engaged in producing the mural.
https://www.nycgovparks.org/art-and-antiquities/rockaway-beautification
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