Installation, STEMS, Steel, Acrylic paint

Patterson Park, Baltimore, Maryland

2015

Team Kyle Miller &Tim Scofield

http://www.kylemiller.org/projects.htm

The neighborhood of Patterson Park in Baltimore is a wonderful community that enjoys their park every day. My sculptural installation titled STEMS intends to enhance visitors experience while also engaging the local community. The relationship between installation and site can be a unique and energizing experience that connects visitors while also urging the consideration of larger issues such as how we as humans integrate into and impact our surroundings. My work creates interactive environments and speaks to the relation of viewer to place and space.

I have been selected for that public Art Project in Patterson Park that addresses a broad audience and local neighborhood at the same time that seeks for recovery, natural environment and a balanced lifestyle for urban dwellers. In this social context I display STEMS, copied and recreated trees destroyed by environmental disasters through the transformation from cardboard into weather resistant metal works.

STEMS are arranged in an organic pattern that allows visitors to walk through and feeling welcomed. Originally they are based on the concept of recreating huge trees destroyed by environmental disasters or ecological disease. I preserve and copy shapes of found stumps, reviving bygone trees through an installation that can be walked through.

Inspired by nature, I create open spheres encouraging visitors to wander through the installation contemplating memories of what was lost in real nature.