What Lies Beneath
In 2002, the downtown Sudbury pedestrian underpass community mural project explord the concept of water awareness and our responsibility for it’s protection and care. With lead artists Lori Bergh, Eric Elgar, Ander Reszczynski, and Shailagh Keaney, Myths and Mirrors developed a series of community consultations about their concerns about the environment involving hundreds of residents from its developmental processes to its outcome. After weeks of consultations and discussions about water quality, environmental standards and the history of our historic watershed, an engaged core group of over 75 young people in our community brought all of the group’s ideas and images together into the collective design. Many of the results from the consultation process were inspired by the integral work of the Junction Creek Restoration Committee and community paricipation in their active roles in our environmental care. Many involved also aided the group in choosing the site for the community project to take shape. The incredibly vibrant collective design and creation that stands today can be found in the Elgin Street pedestrian underpass, running alongside a buried section of the creek and at the mouth of the Northside of the underpass outside of Worthington Drive and Riverside Drive’s outerwalls. Hundreds of testimonies have told us that residents feel safer and more comfortable walking through to downtown because of it’s warmth and beautiful organic movement and wonder.
Please feel free to view the community photographs from the ‘What Lies Beneath’ project here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythsandmirrors/sets/72157615786594772/show/
