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Terra Fugit - Land Flies
Permanent Installation |
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| Terra Fugit Site |
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| Location: |
Broward County, FL, completed 2006 |
| Client: | Broward Cultural Affairs,
City of Miramar |
| Size: | Four acre art piece in 200 acre park |
| Materials: | Earthwork, coral rock, aluminum float, planting, seating, concrete path, burper |
| Budget: | $8,000,000 park, $215,000 art components |
| Allied Artist: | Cherie Saleeby |
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This project, recently completed after 10 years of work, brings conceptual explorations of the nature of the land, time and human development into the design of a new regional park in a fast growing, completely new community.
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View of View of Preserve
from Landing |
Information Plaque at Preserve |
Family on Boulder Seats |
| The 200 acre regional park site is located at the edge of the developed land of Broward County, near the Everglades. In the areas surrounding the site residential development has occurred at a very large scale and very rapidly. The scale and totality of these transformations is breathtaking. Yet they have occurred at the far edge of the current settlements, and are not well observed or understood. |
Land/Water Drawing |
| The construction of the Park itself is also a complete transformation. Even though the site was open marshland, its grading, water bodies and vegetation and even wildlife habitats were completely re-built, totally created by the hands and machines of humans. |
Path and Grasses |
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| Art Site Cross Section |
Art Site Plan |
The base facts for this park are those of the land and water. The movement of the continents, glaciers and sedimentation created the great limestone shelf of this land mass. Fresh water permeates the limestone just below the surface and moves imperceptibly toward the broad, invisible river of the Everglades. The six inch layer of topsoil, the "muck", supports all of the indigenous life here. Humans create landscape here in a few months that usually take geological forces many millennia to accomplish. This power is worthy of both celebration and great caution. Our project is both participation and critique. |
Fossil/Time Drawing
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- - - - - - - - Excavation . - . . - . .-..-.. Detail of Coral Boulder
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Text on Path | 
Path with Artists' Fossils and Grasses |
The waterway, excavated for the practical need to obtain fill material to raise the grade of the rest of the site for roads, parking and play fields, also becomes the central focus of the park. Our project, Terra Fugit, is built around a circular bay on the waterway.
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View of Boulder Seat, Path
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Entrance to Floating Landing |
View of Preserve |
The elements of the piece are:
- The Earth Bowl which uses large coral rock from the excavation that cannot be used as fill to create an amphitheater of memory.
- The Preserve which will maintain a small area of the existing marshland undisturbed for slower paced change and contemplation - with interpretive signage.
- The Path of Memory connecting the two including additional fossils created by the Artists and inscriptions about time.
- The Landing connecting the Earth Bowl to the water
- The Burper activating the surface of the circular lagoon
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All Photos by Beckett Logan |
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