Gooseflower, Duckpod, and Dragon Flyway

Artist

Lynne Hull

Year

1997

Location

Fairbrooke Pond

Description

Hull designed her environmental art, located at Fairbrooke Pond, to be humorous and entertaining as well as aesthetic and educational. Her work includes nesting sculptures for geese and ducks, a Bug Log, a Bat Belfry, and a Dragon Flyway, which provides a place for insects to sun themselves and dragonflies to metamorphose. Fairbrooke Pond is a stormwater detention area located at Prospect and Taft Hill Road. This project is part of the city's Utility Department outreach program. The location will also serve as an outdoor classroom for nearby Bauder Elementary School.

Artist's Statement

"My artwork tries to assist in the survival of the other species with which we share the planet. For "Gooseflower, Duckpond" on a very urban site, I wanted sculptures which would provide shelter for animals using the site while raising awareness of the humans about the existence and needs of those animals. Since the site is used as an outdoor classroom by the nearby elementary school, the students were involved in some of the sculptures, and the sculptures were intended to be slightly "cartoony" to appeal to the young audience."

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