River Poetry

Andrews Farm and Converse Heights – Cottonwood Trail
This installation is no longer on view

Artist Erwin Redl provides an opportunity for visitors to contemplate the role of technology in our lives within a nature preserve. Located between Converse Heights and Andrews Farm neighborhoods, the Cottonwood Trail is a 116-acre urban greenspace with 4 1/2 miles of trails, and is owned and maintained by the Spartanburg Area Conservancy, a membership-based nonprofit organization. By juxtaposing LED displays similar to those used by restaurants and gas stations against the solitude of a meandering creek, the artist creates a tangible demonstration that nature and digital technology can coexist.

The project presents local poetry displayed on twelve double-sided LED signs suspended above the Cottonwood Trail. Visitors can read the lines of poetry overhead as they walk along Lawson’s Fork Creek. The layered poetry dimension invites the community to contemplate their thoughts, observations, and feelings about nature within this dynamic human/nature system created by the artist.

The Hub City Writers Project will curate an ongoing series of poems for River Poetry through March 2017

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photos byGus Powell, courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

 

photos courtesy of Steven Stinson