As If It Were Already Here
...An aerial sculpture by Janet Echelmman is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015. The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
Uploaded on June 20, 2015