“Modern Day Midden: Ode to Oysters Past”

The Governor’s Island installation graces the façade and front of a Colonial-style home which houses an exhibit by the Sculptor’s Guild curated by the Drawing Center of NYC in a show entitled, “Figuartive Lines” which exhibited both scuptures drawings and three dimensional works. The The house and landscape was a fantastic canvas with which to “draw” with oysters. The effect was that the house seemed “enchanted” and to overflow with oysters drawing the vistors to the island into the house where the rest of the exhibit as shown.

The Urban Divers /Harlem River Ecology Center & on the Harlem River in the Bronx.

The Harlem River Ecology Center Urban Nature is a center devoted to environmental education, community stewardship, and maritime culture. At this site the spiral pattern that the Oyster Midden took on was inspired by the Australian Aboriginal design of the origin of life spiral. The tree that stands outside the center was Integrated into the design impromptu. The entire installation was removed from Governor’s island and re-installed in the Bronx in one long Glorious Indian Summer afternoon.

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