Tracing the Headwaters of the Weywitsprittner
Alexandra Belyaev
"The deep tide of time casts its spell ... An ecology valued by Canarsee Natives for its diversity of wildlife that provided food and seashells used for currency ... gave way to desolate marshlands ...
Where millions of fiddler crabs, thousands of muskrats and other marshland life once swarmed ... a combination of garbage, refuse, & dredged sand built up.
Still the beauty of this resilient littoral is not lost. An incursion of nature into the cast grid of the city, stands a relic landscape, a counterpoint to the artificiality of its surroundings."
Words by Thomas Campanella in “The Lost Creek”.
Where millions of fiddler crabs, thousands of muskrats and other marshland life once swarmed ... a combination of garbage, refuse, & dredged sand built up.
Still the beauty of this resilient littoral is not lost. An incursion of nature into the cast grid of the city, stands a relic landscape, a counterpoint to the artificiality of its surroundings."
Words by Thomas Campanella in “The Lost Creek”.
Artist Statement
“What is life without sparkle?”
Sit, breathe, enjoy life as he did.
Brian Andrew Gewirtz
1994-2015
A mixed media project for Professor Maltby's Open Space Fall 2020 course. This project explores the multi-sensory experience of tracing one of the original fingers of the narrows to Jamaica Bay at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Preserve in Brooklyn.
Sit, breathe, enjoy life as he did.
Brian Andrew Gewirtz
1994-2015
A mixed media project for Professor Maltby's Open Space Fall 2020 course. This project explores the multi-sensory experience of tracing one of the original fingers of the narrows to Jamaica Bay at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Preserve in Brooklyn.
Tracing the Headwaters of the Weywitsprittner
Mixed media project tracing headwaters of Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn. Re-engage with the headwaters through text, visuals, and audio. Reinvigorate relationships with the multiplicity of narratives contained on the land through emergent design proposals.