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Third in a series of plazas along the Boulder Greenway, the design of this space draws its inspiration from a nearby pond. Impressions of lily pads and native cottonwoods distinguish the pavement. A line of text from the noted eco-psychologist David Abram traces a ripple on the surface of this concrete "pond" and an image of a local trout surfaces nearby. Landscape and hardscape elements are woven together to provide comfort and beauty for the human population and habitat for the native animal community. |
"Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostrils - all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. This landscape of shadowed voices, these feathered bodies and antlers and tumbling streams - these breathing shapes are our family, the beings with whom we are engaged, with whom we struggle and suffer and celebrate." - David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous |
