{"id":2197,"date":"2009-12-11T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:53:54","slug":"public-art-hopes-to-unify-community-in-a-low-income-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2009\/12\/11\/public-art-hopes-to-unify-community-in-a-low-income-suburb\/","title":{"rendered":"Public art hopes to unify community in a low-income suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HALIFAX <\/strong>– Spryfield\u2019s public spaces aren\u2019t often associated with art. In many people\u2019s minds, the suburban neighbourhood is associated with violence, graffiti tags, and low-income housing projects, but that could be all the more reason to make art in the community, says Miro Davis, a Spryfield-based artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou hear about it,\u201d she says. \u201cYou hear all these stories about it, all this trouble…all the problems.\u201d Yet Davis strongly believes that art \u2013 and particularly community art \u2013 has great power to bring together people and space in a visual way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroducing something that is a spectacular process, that\u2019s happening in a place that has a rough reputation, shows the beauty in that particular place,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Davis has been commissioned to involve the community in a public art project, which will be called Water Falls \u2014 a 15-foot-tall project of plastic, metal, and lighting. The project is going to be installed in the Captain William Spry community centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Davis is going out into the community to work with seniors, youth, children, and adults on this project. Every participant will form a water drop shape out of clay, using as much artistic license on the concept of \u201cwater\u201d as he or she desires. The fist-sized clay shapes will then be used as moulds. Davis will pour recycled plastic over them until she\u2019s left with hundreds of large, clear plastic \u201cwater drops.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drops will be hung together from silver tubing in a wave formation. Davis intends to run lights inside the tubing and drill holes at intervals along the tube. \u201cSo the light will come out in certain areas and illuminate the water droplets that are hanging off of it, these forms that everybody has personalized and made,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The piece will be displayed prominently on the wall inside the community centre. Davis hopes that when people come into the centre, the piece will wow them. \u201cWhen you have a good idea, a correlation between material, site specificity, and the people and the artist \u2013 when that all jives together, it\u2019s a very strong statement that happens,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The statement tells members of the community that this space is valued and deserves to be beautiful. Davis remembers the community centre before the renovation. There have been many improvements and it looks a lot better now. Davis hopes that Water Falls will continue to remind residents of that theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems if you spend enough time and make something that\u2019s pretty precious and pretty spectacular, what happens is people end up congregating around that, respecting it, leaving it, and doing their thing and leaving it alone,\u201d she says. \u201cIt becomes part of their family. It\u2019s interesting. It\u2019s a really positive way to deal with a problem area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis has created other art projects with Spryfield youth in the past, and she notes that when they see the finished product, there\u2019s a great sense of pride. Creating a small, individualized piece of a public space brings a sense of ownership in that space. This feeling is particularly strong when the young artists didn\u2019t feel any sense of belonging beforehand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ownership of everybody coming to the place to say, \u2018I did that, I made that, oh cool, look at it all put together,\u2019 and feeling like you were part of something bigger \u2013 it really does it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s waking people up to see that and respect a place because of what\u2019s happening there.\u201d<\/p>\n

photo by Shaina Luck<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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