Our Mission

This artwork brings the scale of our most coastal rhythm - that of the tide - to our region at an unprecedented scale.It broadcasts the fundamental and changing cadences of our ocean - reminding us of these simple yet profound

rhythms.

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The need to grow a creative vocabulary around our ecology through connection is real - connecting with one another and with our planet. These connections can produce empathy, and empathy is a powerful agent for change.

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Countless activists, scientists and policy makers have shared with us that, at least in Eastern Massachusetts, we know what we need to do to confront and mitigate climate change. The research has been underway for years, the

policies are changing, perhaps too slowly, but they are changing.

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What are we waiting for then? In many cases what we are waiting for is culture.

Our behaviors, our awareness, our attitudes towards the changing climate, and the shifts needed to slow the accumulation of carbon in our atmosphere and plastic in our oceans are tied up in culture - the ways we think, the things we believe, the way it has always been. These are culturally ingrained, and shifting culture is hard.

Thatʼs where pubic art comes in; a force we believe in, and one that especially when deployed at the scale of a bridge viewable by thousands ofpeople every evening, just might move the needle.