Another Article Re:The Twilight Garden [Post here 29 October, 2015]

[Updates 02 Dec about Creative Machine] Different style, different content and different focus in another feature on The Twilight Garden located close by the Valley Metro Light Rail Station at Main Street/Country Club.

Posted: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:26 am

Pocket park offers respite in downtown Mesa

By Shelley Ridenour Tribune

Offers what? Not too many people use or have the word "respite" in their everyday speech . . . is that spite and spite again? Like "re-think"?

As you can see from one of the stunning images taken at twilight by David Jolkovski that accompanied the article it's not a "pocket park" - it's exposed with public access on three sides, with this one looking south across Main Street. The open location with benches facing the acrylic sculpture configurations, is on the north side leading to/from a parking area, and on the east side occupies the space next to Il Viniao restaurant.

The post on this site titled "Valley Metro Public Art > The Shadow of A Memory" has images from the daytime with this longitudinal view of the streetscape looking east on Main Street and a cyclist walking his bike enjoying the scenery.

Twilight or daytime, thanks to Valley Metro and the City of Mesa, Creative Place Making and the role of an artist get highlighted in not just one but two reports.
 

Connect to and read both.
Find out more about Creative Place Making by scanning or searching this BlogSpot - there's a link to five videos

As noted in the Oct 29 post on this site, one source was Cindy Ornstein, Arts & Culture Director for The City of Mesa, who sent some details about how the design of the Valley Metro Public Art space evolved after Rob Antoniak, Valley Metro's Community Outreach go-to guy hooked us up.
The Mesa Tribune article did include those.
Your MesaZona blogger is including a link here to the artist and the company that fabricated Twilight Garden [page July 31, 2015] http://creativemachines.com/fabricating-twilight-garden

Keep your eyes out for more Interactive Public Art.

About Creative Machines = a group of visionary artists, engineers and fabricators doing world-class work for clients everywhere from their base in Tucson, AZ.
We are a multi-disciplinary firm whose abilities span exhibition design, ball machine sculptures, and monumental public art.
We create monumental and human-scaled work that is beautiful at first glance but yields deeper rewards with continued interaction.
Our work is rooted in science, perception and history.

Since 1995 we have been making dynamic experiences for museums, science centers, libraries, hospitals, university campuses, transit stops, art museums, trade shows, and public spaces across the globe. Regardless of the time of day, someone somewhere is enjoying our work.
We never stop innovating.
We make technically sophisticated projects and explore fabrication strategies that have never been tried before. Extensive research and prototyping let us create the most innovative and unique work for our clients.
In certain areas we can do things that no other firm can