Related Projects

Water Projects
  • 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

  • River

    • An illusionary river of water, light, and shadow

  • 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

Walks & Plazas
  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

  • Light Gate

    • Glass laminated with prismatic film captures the sunset for the Centennial Art Project for Manhattan Beach, CA

Streets, Walks & Plazas
  • LightPlay

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

  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

  • SunFlowers, An Electric Garden

    • Sculptural solar collectors provide shade and lighting for a bike path

  • Passage

    • A multifaceted project for the new South Mountain Community Library, connecting people through words to the landscape of South Phoenix

  • The Zanjero’s Line

    • A recreational path along 4 miles of the Highline Canal in South Phoenix, AZ

  • The Benefit of Mr. Kite

    • Re-envisioning a walkway in San Diego, CA into a choreographed path of light and color

  • Arbors & Ghost Trees

    • Bus stops and shaded arbors as markers of transformation and memory along a major road in South Phoenix, AZ

  • Topiary – A Twenty Year Project

    • A sculptural gateway to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo that measures time with growing boxwood

  • Mud Life of the Maumee

    • Whimsical drawings of small creatures choreograph movement along paths in a Toledo, OH neighborhood park

  • Asaroton, 1976

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

  • The Big Question

    • Creating an active and thought-provoking gathering space alongside The Science Center of Iowa

  • Wall Cycle to Ocotillo

    • A trail of 20 sculpture sites mitigating between 5 miles of highway and neighborhoods in Phoenix

  • Light Gate

    • Glass laminated with prismatic film captures the sunset for the Centennial Art Project for Manhattan Beach, CA

  • Submerge

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

Parks, Trails & Land
  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

  • 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

  • The Zanjero’s Line

    • A recreational path along 4 miles of the Highline Canal in South Phoenix, AZ

  • Topiary – A Twenty Year Project

    • A sculptural gateway to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo that measures time with growing boxwood

  • Mud Life of the Maumee

    • Whimsical drawings of small creatures choreograph movement along paths in a Toledo, OH neighborhood park

  • Ben’s Circular Tower

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

  • 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

  • Three Gardens

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

  • Reclamation Art

    • Reclamation Artists Boston

New Projects
  • Meeting Place

    • A green community oasis in the Downtown Greenway, Greensboro, NC

  • Light Gate

    • Glass laminated with prismatic film captures the sunset for the Centennial Art Project for Manhattan Beach, CA

Florida
  • Terra Fugit

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

Windows on the Floating World

Windows on the Floating World

Mags Harries & Lajos Héder

This is an art piece not about an object but is about the experience of place. This tropical wetland garden is about water, immersion and experience.

Our first impetus was to get the visitor to the water, visually there was plenty of water but no sound, no movement and no real access, so we decided to excavated the site to physically bring the visitor down to the water, to walk on the water and to feel the water.

The water at the site is a retention pond, the level of which fluctuates with the rain. This is an opportunity to make people aware of rainfall and it’s importance in the landscape at West Palm Beach. We have created many ways of experiencing the landscape. We see it starting at the Weir and the Rain Gauge where the water is artificially pumped up to the Weir, the pathway bringing you through the littoral zone to the Windows on the Floating World, (where the special changeable plantings will be featured), and the waterfall creates dynamic sound and movement, on to the Overlook at the bench and finally to the Water’s Edge, where you can sit and meditate on the water.

The opportunity to develop this piece with landscape architect Kirsten Siegel of WGI, Inc. and the advice of the horticulturalists at Mounts was really fabulous and helped us to select an exciting and appropriate palate of planting and other materials. We know that the new landscape will be cared for and thrive.

We want to thank Elayna Toby Singer of Palm Beach County Art in Public Places for her support and guidance through this complex project. Navigating through all the parties is a difficult job and we are happy that we have created an art/landscape piece together that will be part of people’s experience and memories at Mounts Botanical Garden of Palm Beach County.

 

 

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