Rebecca Ross worked with neighbors and rainwater consultant Ryan Wood to transform a former bicycle lockup at a Tempe elementary school from a dirt lot into a sustainable desert oasis. Ross designed the sculpture, pathway, and seating to enhance the new pocket park, filled with drought-tolerant and native plantings. Seats and benches, shaped from tree trunk sections and filled with blue epoxy, suggest water moving through the tree, sustaining life. A nod to the former bike site, the obelisk sculpture is painted with color-changing automobile paint and adorned with bicycle sprockets suggesting raindrops against the deep color of monsoon clouds.
Rain and Art Garden, Curry Elementary School, Tempe, Arizona, 2018
Rebecca Ross
Integral colored concrete pathway with glow stones, painted stainless steel sculpture with bicycle gears, tree-trunk seating on steel supports
7’ x 1.5’ x 1.5’ sculpture; 150’ x 4’ path; Seven approx. 2’ x 1.5’ x 1.5’ seats
