Bridging the Gaps

June 12, I got to see the Greenway Project’s latest artwork a little over a month after its installation.  Boston’s aerial rope sculpture created by the artist Janet Echelman is an exquisite sight at night.  The ropes are over 100 miles long and the sculpture has nearly 550,000 knots.  It is anchored to a few buildings and lit using multicolored led lights.  A long exposure bridges the gaps between the ropes as I feel this signifies the coming together for all in this great city.“My sculpture for Boston above the Rose Kennedy Greenway spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and Pedestrian Park.The sculpture's form echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the "Tri-Mountain" which was razed in the 18th-Century to create lands from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enable the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.” An extract from the artist’s statement.