KEEP OFF THE GRASS

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

2002

 

WITH: BEN SCHMIDT

Designed for installation in Harvard Yard, this sculpture consists of two steel arcs, one 45 feet long and the other 25 feet, covered in sod spanning sections of grass between walkways in the Yard. The arcs continue an implied pathway connecting the main entrances of two buildings on opposite sides of the Yard. The paved walkway that follows this axis abruptly stops midway across; the arcs continue the trajectory.

 

The form was a response to the obsessive concerns of the University about the impact of public art on the precious grass of the Yard. The solution was to create a sculpture that never touched the grass but instead bounded lightly over it.   After exhibition in Harvard Yard, this piece was exhibited at the Four Corners Art Center in Rhode Island.

 

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