Series Title: Guadalupe Meander: A Refugia for San Jose
Timeframe: 1983 to 1986
Exhibitions:
Timeframe: 1983 to 1986
Exhibitions:
- 1983, Guadalupe Meander: A Refugia for San Jose, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- 1985 University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
- 1985 A Tale of Three Cities Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
- 1985 FOUR URBAN PROJECTS TORTUE GALLERY Santa Monica, CA
- 1986 Guadalupe Meander: A Refugia for San Jose, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College San Marcos, California
We came to San José at the request of the San José State University and the City Council for the Arts to make a proposal for
A Refugia for San José the city. We kept crossing and re-crossing small bridges with clusters of trees showing green beyond them as we went from one place of opportunity to another. Finally we parked on one of the little bridges. It was at most a ten-minute walk from the center of town. We found ourselves looking at herons feeding in a small river lush and overgrown in the early autumn afternoon. We said to the gallery director that we found the river interesting and spent the rest of the day walking its banks and photographing them, counting the bridges, and walking from one to another. We said, “Let a riverbank be built such that the cityscape disappears for the walker and city time dissolves into wander time. Let a riverbank be built that meanders along the Guadalupe River and serves as a green spine for the city and serves as a refugia for plants and animals and a refuge for the water.” And so we proposed a walk, The Guadalupe Meander, which would echo the meander of the river and follow its banks
through the city, moving along and across the banks from Highway 17 at the airport to the Highway 280 interchange.
