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| Bird Garden, project for Revealing Nun's Field initiative by Reclamation Artists Mission Hill, Boston Bird Garden is a response to and investigates the effects of urban development on the environment, urban culture and the individual experience. The project consisted of individually designed nest boxes for Screech Owls who lack breeding opportunities. Large cavity breeders and other wildlife face increasing difficulties as rapid development and logging diminish their habitat. Reclaiming Nun's Field was a public art project / installation created by the Reclamation Artists in collaboration with the Delle Avenue Neighborhood Association. Nun's Field on Lower Mission Hill in Boston was purchased by a developer as part of a 22-acre real estate transaction. The local neighborhood association opposes a proposed row of market rate two and three family houses. Since the site has always been an open space and never been built on the neighbors wish to preserve this parcel as a gathering place for neighborhood festivities as well as an urban wildlife refuge. Historically, Nun's Field was used as a garden by the neighborhood and the sisters of the adjoining convent at the top of the hill. The field exposes the view to a rare 30-foot high Puddingstone rock ledge, a stone unique to the New England region. A 5-foot high retaining wall dates back to the Works Project Administration (WPA) and deserves preservation. The artists worked individually and in teams. The project consisted of a pathway system and site-specific sculptures. Reclaiming Nun's Field is part of an ongoing series of collaborative public artworks created by the Reclamation Artists. Established in 1990, this group of Boston area artists and architects has created major installations on various sites in Greater Boston. All of the group's projects advance its commitment to creating "alternative visions for the use of land and public space." The artists call attention to the urban landscape and question how communities shape, inhabit, neglect, or enhance it. |
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