Story Info
Story Info
Autumn Van Ord and Lisa McCall
Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
2021
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
Why this Place?
Wyman Park, Baltimore, MD
Wyman Park is an urban park in Baltimore City; concerns for place include erosion, invasive plants, high use and poor water quality.
Act of Beauty
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A few days before this event, a friend had given me a small bouquet of flowers. To symbolize the struggles of the last year I brought a red rose that had dried up and some daisies – looking as fresh as one might expect. The flowers themselves represented friendship and mutual support – that which helps us through difficult times. The beauty and impermanence of cut flowers – already manifesting in the rose and soon to be in the daisies. Beauty and death and wounding and impermanence. We created our radjoy bird and used the flowers as the tail feathers.
Image Credit:
- McCall VanOrd: Lisa McCall
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