IMG_3458 Ripple
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- “Ripple” by Adria Arch and the Arlington Knitting Brigade
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- With so many people working on the project, she “named each of the trees in the installation in order to maintain an order. I wanted a variety of sizes of trees, and I chose certain trees in the grove and had each tree group work on that tree’s diameter.
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- View of “Ripple” from below the Bikeway
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- Arch wanted each tree to have about 20 feet of knit work, so she divided each tree into five sections, each about 48 inches high.
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- View of “Ripple” from below the Bikeway
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- Why? In part, she said, because the activity is fun, adds tinges of humor to creation and involves people in something bigger than themselves.
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- View of “Current” from below Bikeway
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- “Current” by Frank Vasello
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- View of “Current” from Bikeway down toward Spy Pond
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- “Gathering the material is half the battle,” said Vasello. “It’s a lot of running around under trees.”
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- “Current,” created by Provincetown artist Frank Vasello, creates a river of sticks moving down a hill near the Spy Pond Park playground.
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- He hopes that falling leaves from surrounding trees will fill in some of the gaps in the piece.
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- A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Vasello has created over a dozen of these stick-based pieces and spent the past week installing this one.
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- Arch said she makes the final choices about design and placement. Several volunteers will help to sew the swatches into the 20-foot lengths of knit work.
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- Arch, a painter and long a promoter of public art in town, see this latest effort as a significant way to engage: Consider the brisk turnout of knitting participants.
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