In an investigation of the cultural landscape surrounding the Mississippi corridor in St. Paul, MN, Cliff Garten conceived of and led this two-year project collaborating with five poets and other visual artists. Through a combination of text and sculpture, a garden was designed to investigate issues of racism in American public life. Perched over the Mississippi river, the garden navigates the diverse history of the city through a series of artistic gestures to the urban and historical landscape. This artwork received much critical acclaim and was explored for its unique collaboration by the significant art historian Lucy Lippard in her 1998 book titled The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society.
