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Artist outlines Botanical Canopy Project as modular shade response to urban heat
Summary
Baez Okeidus, a sculptor living in Tempe, described the Botanical Canopy Project: a modular public-art shade structure of 60 overlapping "leaves" meant to provide mesquite-like shade, encourage local fabrication, and draw attention to water conservation in Phoenix-area neighborhoods. Timeline and funding were not specified.
Baez Okeidus, a sculptor living and working in Tempe, Arizona, described the Botanical Canopy Project, a modular public-art shade system intended to help address the urban heat island effect in Phoenix-area neighborhoods.
Okeidus said the project grows from a bridge motif: "The Covered Bridge is very much a symbolic thing of Appalachia," she said, and that reference provided a compositional starting point. "There are 60 leaves on the whole project which do overlap each other so we're gonna create…
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