Administered by City of Phoenix Phoenix Arts Commission 200 West Washington, Tenth Floor Phoenix Arizona 85003
Located Papago Park Intersection of McDowell Road & Galvin Parkway Phoenix Arizona
Date:
1992. Dedicated June 21, 1992
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1994.
Sculpture, Sept.-Oct. 1991.
unsigned
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Summary:
Site installation consisting of seven 16 ft. high vertical markers sited around a 240 ft. long wall with seven branches radiating from its center, aligning Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, and the Casa Grande ruins. The wall captures rain and channels it into seven curvilinear stone branches. Each branch creates a farming terrace which is planted. The markers and wall are made of stacked, mortared fieldstone. The terraces are made of dry-stacked fieldstone and are planted with native plants, including palo verdes, ironwoods, creosote, brittlebrush and desert wildflowers.
