This installation was designed in response to a call for proposals for a public art work to be housed on the grounds of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Inspired by Radcliffe’s legacy as a center for equity and inclusion, the work, titled A Tree Grows Somewhere Else, was designed to call attention to one of our great contemporary inequities: environmental injustice. The project proposed using a majority of the competition’s budget to create a landscape intervention in a community historically burdened by pollution and a lack of open space. This intervention would then be recorded on the institute’s grounds in a monochromatic installation that features images of the plants used off-site. These large-scale panels would be positioned in the same arrangement as their respective plantings off-site, thus being a reflection of the work taking place outside the university’s walls. Thus two distinct spaces are created that are inextricably linked. Each site has different goals and a different audience, but both installations are meant to draw attention to a stark inequality, not just by announcing it, but by putting its proverbial money where its proverbial mouth is.
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Map of Cambridge and the potential redistribution of planted open space from the Harvard campus to the nearby Wellington-Harrington neighborhood
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Rendering of the installation at Radcliffe Yard, creating a flexible public space amid images of the trees planted off-site.