Papago Park/City Boundary, (sculpture).

Papago Park/City Boundary, (sculpture).

Pinto, Jody, 1942- , sculptor.

Martino, Steve, landscape architect.

Papago Park/City Boundary, (sculpture).

1992. Dedicated June 21, 1992.

Fieldstone, plants.

Installation: approx. 2 acres; Stone wall: approx. H. 16 ft. x L. 240 ft.

Site installation consisting of seven 16 ft. high vertical markers sited around a 240 ft. long wall with seven branches radiating from its center, aligning Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, and the Casa Grande ruins. The wall captures rain and channels it into seven curvilinear stone branches. Each branch creates a farming terrace which is planted. The markers and wall are made of stacked, mortared fieldstone. The terraces are made of dry-stacked fieldstone and are planted with native plants, including palo verdes, ironwoods, creosote, brittlebrush and desert wildflowers.

Ethnic -- Indian -- Hohokam

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arizona -- Phoenix

Reclamation art

Administered by City of Phoenix, Phoenix Arts Commission, 200 West Washington, Tenth Floor, Phoenix, Arizona 85003

Located Papago Park, Intersection of McDowell Road & Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona

The installation was initiated in 1990 as a collaborative effort between the Phoenix Arts Commission and the Scottsdale Cultural Council to celebrate the shared border between the two cities and serve as an entry marker for the park. It was completed April 1992.The installation functions as a desert reclamation project and employs ancient water-harvesting processes used by the Hohokam Indians. The markers in the installation align with the sun's rays on the summer solstice. IAS files contain copy of related article from Phoenix Arts Commission Newsletter, Oct. 1992, excerpt from Sculpture (Sept./Oct. 1991), and copy of artist's statement.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona survey, 1994.

Sculpture, Sept.-Oct. 1991.

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