Every now and then walking around the streets here in 'The Old Donut-Hole', it is a pleasure to be reminded of what is in one small spot of land that was somehow transformed - not by the brilliant minds of city-staff urban planners inside City Hall, but by one transplant from Long Island with one idea to enhance the neighborhood where she lived.
This post from the MesaZona Archives is dated 02 November 2016, about three years. Marie Green is now "a Master Gardener" - here's that story. You might want to take the time to take a walk and see how this looks today . . .
Is this installation going to be a Pop-Up phenomenon or an ephemeral part of the urban landscape landscape?
Time will tell and it's a story your MesaZona blogger wants to write about ... how did this happen?
It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.
A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street made her dream. Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this get-go Ms. Green is working to make her dream real.
After being out-of-touch for a while, got this email in my inbox six days ago:
"Hi, Tim,
Marie Green here. Have a new addition to downtown Mesa.
Please come and see the Labyrinth that John Jay Pelletier created yesterday. I found him online, don't know him, never met him.
Yesterday he showed up unannounced and created a Labyrinth on the empty lot between Robson Street Villas and Inside The Bungalow.
It was my dream for over a year. I was researching the Labyrinth at Superstition Mountain Museum and came across his name. Contacted him and the rest is history. "
This post from the MesaZona Archives is dated 02 November 2016, about three years. Marie Green is now "a Master Gardener" - here's that story. You might want to take the time to take a walk and see how this looks today . . .
02 November 2016
Spontaneous Creative Place Making On-The-Ground Here In The New Urban DTMesa
Time will tell and it's a story your MesaZona blogger wants to write about ... how did this happen?
It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.
A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street made her dream. Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this get-go Ms. Green is working to make her dream real.
"Hi, Tim,
Marie Green here. Have a new addition to downtown Mesa.
Please come and see the Labyrinth that John Jay Pelletier created yesterday. I found him online, don't know him, never met him.
Yesterday he showed up unannounced and created a Labyrinth on the empty lot between Robson Street Villas and Inside The Bungalow.
It was my dream for over a year. I was researching the Labyrinth at Superstition Mountain Museum and came across his name. Contacted him and the rest is history. "
