STRIPS OF HISTORY BARREL

Location | Milford, MA

date | Summer 2022

client | Mass Cultural Council

type | Public Art

Jake Okrent and I created a public art piece for the town of Milford in Massachusetts. We modeled it after their Louisa Lake Park. This barrel design features those forms and peoples, through their toils and sacrifices, led to the landscapes we now call home.
There are surprisingly few opportunities for direct reflection on how the forms and people of the past have dramatically and continuously broken ground all around us to generate the realities of today.

Our best opportunity to connect with this path is through reflection on the natural landscape itself. The textures and colors of our design speak to this natural relationship. The title and the fiction are meant to inspire this passage through time. This was an accomplishment in so many ways, but the big lesson we learned: Never give up even if a one-week project turned into a four-month one.