Curation, research, writing, art

Structures and infrastructures shape Somerville’s urban landscape. This installation celebrated historic objects and suggested updated calls to direct action on local ecological matters including energy, water, soil, air pollution, and trees. David Buckley Borden’s proposals suggested landscape interventions to adapt to environmental conditions, using images courtesy the Somerville Museum. Flags made by Borden and collaborators recast Revolutionary War flags as environmental calls to action. The Emerald Ash Borer Woodshed and the Hydrophone installations pieces were relics of a future ecology. Historic objects recalled past relationships with wood and pomp, water and organizing. historical sewer pipe, made of wood with an iron pipe inside, is one of the ways how water once flowed beneath Somerville’s surface. Dating back to the late 1600s, hollowed-out tree log water pipes were once a commonplace medium for water conveyance underneath cities.

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https://www.davidbuckleyborden.com/triple-decker-ecology#:~:text=Triple%20Decker%20Ecology%20exhibition%20featured,David%20Buckley%20Borden%20and%20collaborators.