Ingrid Koivukangas
Environmental
Artist
Responding to sites around the world through works created in site specific installation, intervention, ephemeral sculpture, video, sound, web, permanent site-specific sculpture, photography, printmaking,painting & drawing.
Welcoming opportunities to work in different geographic regions &
locations in the world, creating site-specific works in response to the
land.
River
Project:The
Bow
Topographic
Line
Environmental Design Gallery,
University of Calgary, November 2002
Topographic Line, is the second part of the River Project: The Bow installation and was situated on the wall opposite the Douglas Fir and White Spruce seedlings that were germinated from seeds collected along the Bow River.
A thirty foot long topographic line was made from clear vinyl tubing which was then filled with water collected from the Bow River. Copper brackets held this water line in place - copper is associated with purifying the spirit and fosters healing, strength and balance.
Topographic Line speaks of the river, of water, that gives life to everything including the seedlings on the opposite wall. Viewers walk between the walls, finding a balance between seedling row and the river line.
See also: River Project: The Bow for the second part of this installation work.
