Waterway

Paul Deery, designer of Waterway, a new installation on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail, explains its origins and execution:

"So, first, what I did when they put out a call to artists for the proposals, they asked for a site specific installation work. I came out here in the late winter last year and I just walked the trail a couple of times. I just started seeing spots where something could go , and I have a couple of different other ideas that I was thinking about, because I have another sculpture here in town. It's called "Chime Tree" and it's a bike rack sculpture that was commissioned by the city a couple years ago, over by Riverside Park. It has these bells that hang from it; it's an interactive sculpture where you can ring the bells. So I thought about doing something like that along the trail. But then when I was walking and I was looking at some of the space and I was looking at all the information plaques, I wanted to have something that was a little *more* interactive in the actual environment. So, I saw this space because of the old Silk Mill across the creek and I just started envisioning something that people could walk through, and how it curves and how the creek curves and everything kind of moves with the creek, it gave me this idea: I wanted to give people that feeling in a short couple of moments of engaging and interacting in that kind of space. 

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