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Land and Sky

GINA CRANDELL
Janet Echelman ’ s sculpture in Boston , As If It Were Already Here , floats gently above the Rose F . Kennedy Greenway with a shimmering lightness so different from the mass of the earth below . It does not touch the ground . Rather , it is parallel to the landscape , floating delicately above the commotion of people moving around below . Yet while discussing the project with Echelman , I was struck by the design affinities between her process of making sculpture and the processes of making landscape architecture — the site and historical
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Land and Sky GINA CRANDELL 16 Janet Echelman’s sculpture in Boston, As If It Were Already Here, floats gently above the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway with a shimmering lightness so different from the mass of the earth below. It does not touch the ground. Rather, it is parallel to the landscape, floating delicately above the commotion of people moving around below. Yet while discussing the project with Echelman, I was struck by the design affinities between her process of making sculpture and the processes of making landscape architecture—the site and historical BSLA