Related Projects

Water Projects
  • Windows on the Floating World

    • A project using refracted light and other day/night lighting effects for a new mixed-use building

  • Xixi Umbrellas

    • Floating umbrella sculptures in the Xixi Wetland Park of Hangzhou, China

  • Terra Fugit

    • A park design that explores the changing Everglades environment to help visitors relate to a rapidly transforming landscape

  • WaterWorks at Arizona Falls

    • A permanent installation at an old hydropower station

  • A MoonTide Garden

    • A waste site transformed into a meditative rock garden that interacts with the tides of Portland, ME

  • Drawn Water

    • A permanent piece at the Cambridge, MA Water Treatment Plant about where water comes from and where it goes

  • The Bronx River Golden Ball

    • An annual event in the Bronx and Westchester Co., NY, where the ball focuses diverse communities on the river

  • Kenduskeag Roots

    • Four sites along the river trail using fallen trees and recorded sound

  • River Runes

    • A trail of installations focused on the river at Art Park

  • Winding Down the Charles

    • A performance piece in Cambridge, MA about the length of the river and time

  • Communal Well

    • A participatory installation in Hawaii about drinking water

  • Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay

    • Proposal for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

Temporary Installations
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • River Runes

    • A trail of installations focused on the river at Art Park

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • Lucid Moment

    • Bringing together light, liquid, movement, and space

  • Communal Well

    • A participatory installation in Hawaii about drinking water

  • Three Gardens

    • Domestic scale gardens make intimate spaces on the grounds of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA

  • Playback

    • Reclaiming a derelict tennis court with sound and nylon straps

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • Border Garden

    • An installation at the La Jolla Museum of Art, CA about the Mexican-US Border, water, land, and immigration

  • Demon Trap

    • An installation where vacuum cleaners become Sin Eaters with poet Peter Finch in Wales,UK

  • Our Charles River

    • Exploring the connections between people, water and rivers

  • Solstice Iceland

    • An installation exploring the path of the Sun on the edge of the Arctic Circle

  • The Gallo Wars of Civitella

    • Video work by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

Massachusetts
  • Man from City Hall

    • Boston City Hall becomes a giant character for First Night celebrations

  • Portrait Chairs

    • Seats of honor for readers in Norfolk, MA

  • In the Dense Words

    • A book environment for a book distribution company

  • Glove Cycle

    • Gloves go through a life cycle while leading passengers down into a Cambridge subway station

  • Asaroton, 1976

    • Bronze garbage embedded in a Boston crosswalk commemorates a produce market.

  • Ben’s Circular Tower

    • A place for storytelling and imagination on top of Boston’s Mission Hill

  • Gateway

    • An oversized table creates a fanciful gateway in a Cambridge middle school

  • Drawn Water

    • A permanent piece at the Cambridge, MA Water Treatment Plant about where water comes from and where it goes

  • 300 Summer Street

    • An artist-owned live/work studio building in Boston’s Fort Point area with recycled steel plate sculpture for the public spaces

  • The Bay Circuit Trail

    • A community project traversing the “Emerald Necklace” surrounding Boston

  • Submerge

    • Video collaboration by Mags Harries & Catherine Siller for Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention Center

  • Winding Down the Charles

    • A performance piece in Cambridge, MA about the length of the river and time

  • Speed of Light

    • Mags’ students illuminate the future route of transit connecting eight communities around Boston

  • Lucid Moment

    • Bringing together light, liquid, movement, and space

  • Three Gardens

    • Domestic scale gardens make intimate spaces on the grounds of the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA

  • One Legged Table

    • Bringing communities to the table to discuss global warming

  • Our Charles River

    • Exploring the connections between people, water and rivers

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

River

  • Location: Ripple Effect: The Art of H2O, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2012)/ Waterways at the Foster Gallery, Nobles and Greenough High School, Needham, MA (2007) / Reaching Water at Cambridge Arts Council Gallery (2005)
  • Fabrication: Jesse Kaminsky
  • Materials: Light, water, Plexiglas, ladder, motor, clamps, tubing, vinyl floor screen
  • Video Credits: Thyra Héder

This public art installation of water, light, and shadow creates an apparition of a river from one bucket of water.  A series of transparent trays are suspended from a ladder and water is pumped from a bucket to the highest tray and cascades down into a bucket at the lowest end.  A small submersible pump in the bucket pumps the water through transparent PVC tubing back up to the top tray.  Light projects through the flowing water onto a pathway on the floor.  With the sounds of water over head, the shadow river becomes real.  The standard hardware of the piece is all plainly visible, contrasting with the ethereal illusion that it creates.

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