Private Commission, Great Island Association, West Yarmouth, Massachusetts; collaboration with Randall Imai, architect.

Peastone, granite, bluestone, beach stones, steel, vegetation; contemplative space: 70’ x 20’; commemorative space: 20’ x 20’, constructed 2000.

This project involved both selecting the site and creating the design of a commemorative and contemplative landscape. The memorial garden was to have a relationship to the existing chapel, a small, shingled structure that sits within an oak and pine forest. Goals of this work that evolved with the families were: (1) a place for the interment of ashes, and a method for memorializing other family members not actually interred in this location, (2) the provision of a quiet and secluded spot for contemplation, and (3) the contemplative garden and the site for the burial of ashes were to be separate spaces.

This work uses elemental geometries and materials to abstract and highlight ideas and experiences of the primordial. An archetypal experience of forest and clearing is palpable.

Project published in Land Forum #13, p. 97.