The intent of this project is to connect the present use of the site with its past, employing water as a metaphor. The concept is based upon the mythical river Lethe, the river as a repository of memories.
Once, only a stone's throw from this site, an ancient stream flowed down through a forest. It carried into the "well" of the sea the memories from earliest times.
I am proposing a symbolic reclamation of the past and recognition of change. ... there will be three elements within this flowing river. From the "source" at the upper waters a 10 ton erratic glacial boulder will be positioned ... at the pool below will be its mirror image, in bronze altered by chemical reaction and time. Language is the third bridging element, for words to convey a sense of a river's journey I have used the following quote by Leonardo da Vinci: "In rivers, the water you touch is the last of what has passed, and the first of that which comes; so with time present."