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<br /> 4 & 5.Flight of Fancy
<br /> Site-specific environmental landscape installation--A Main Gallery Sculpture Installation
<br /> •Completion Date:Summer 1996
<br /> •Media: Wood,steel,plaster,cloth,Styrofoam,stone,gravel,sand,earth,water,plantings,plastic,cotton cord,cement
<br /> and tapes,hardware,paint and sealants,and illumination,sound,and special water effects systems
<br /> •Location:Monument Square,Racine,W3•Racine Parks,Recreation and Cultural Services Department
<br /> •Dimensions: 13 ft(H)x 17 ft(W)x 78 ft(L,)
<br /> As part of the Racine Parks and Recreation "Main Gallery" apprenticeship program, at-risk teens from area schools
<br /> were selected to take part in a summer work program where they were paid to develop work habits while working with
<br /> area artists in painting,sculpture,photography,furniture design,and dance. Invited to Racine to teach sculpture as part
<br /> of this summer program, Layne worked with the community through interviews, archival research and a community
<br /> design workshop to spotlight locations for public artworks and to select the types of sculpture which would reflect the
<br /> socio-cultural heritage of the community. The results of this user-needs research culminated in the design and
<br /> installation of a large public artwork which could he used as a model for future public artworks while transforming and
<br /> revitalizing an existing underutilized downtown park into an active public center.
<br /> Artist concept drawings were used to encourage public involvement and to promote community support for the project.
<br /> Along with site analysis and including the goals realized through the community design workshop, the final design
<br /> reflects a desire to integrate environmental education issues into the sculpture. As part of the six week work project,the
<br /> apprentices were divided into four teams to facilitate the creation of this interactive public environmental sculpture.
<br /> Each team was responsible for final design,fabrication,and installation of one of the project segments:(1)earth,stone,
<br /> brick and planting,(2)wooden structure,(3)metal structure,and(3)electrical and plumbing systems).Collectively the
<br /> class produced and installed suspended wing forms and together with the other materials, transformed an old concrete
<br /> pool into a representation of the history of Racine and its connection to the Lakeshore environment. The resulting
<br /> landscape installation was illuminated for nighttime enjoyment and transformed the park into a place where young and
<br /> old could congregate,
<br /> This architectural landscape reflects Layne's desire to involve the public in the design process and to engage young
<br /> people in the revitalization of their communities while providing them with work experience and a sense of community
<br /> ownership. His continued research into the development of community environmental education programs and
<br /> university courses is reflected in this project. A number of talks,papers, and workshops relating to this project have
<br /> been presented at professional conferences(copy of paper available upon request). His responsibilities for this project
<br /> included course outline, project description development, community participation programming, promotional
<br /> rendering,detail construction drawing,and installation management.
<br /> The image shows a nighttime view of the large-scale sculptural installation of Flight of Fancy at its location in
<br /> Monument Square. Whether by day or night, a visitor walking over the arched wooden bridge must move from one
<br /> outdoor room to another and pass through the circular openings created in the semi-transparent partitions. His
<br /> movement coincides and interconnects with five pairs of wings representing the flight pattern of a bird taking off from
<br /> the shore and soaring out over the water. As each environmental room reflects the different physical characteristics of
<br /> the lakeshore environment, the participant's progress along the path triggers a hidden light-activated sound-generator
<br /> that plays the sounds of that particular shoreline setting. The recordings were also made by the young artists.
<br /> 6.1120 Flow
<br /> Site-specific public art installation—Sculpture Visions
<br /> •Completion Date:June 2011
<br /> •Media:Bamboo calms,metal rod/rebar/wire,soil/mulch,and plantings
<br /> •Location:Chapel Hill Town Hall natural entry court,Chapel Hill,NC
<br /> •Dimensions:4 ft(H)X 30 ft(W)X 50 ft(L)
<br /> Supporting an increased awareness of the importance of understanding how man's actions effect the land and how
<br /> interactions between people can influence the use of natural and cultural resources,Dr. Layne created this sculptural
<br /> work of art in order to promote a greater perception of the relationships that exist between natural, cultural, and
<br /> experiential systems. Defined as aesthetic engineering,the three main objectives were to: (1) create an aesthetically
<br /> pleasing site-specific environmental artwork that follows and spotlights the natural existing topography,depicting the
<br /> water collecting and water dispersing forms;(2)employ art to solve a man-made ecologically degrading environmental
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