Who was chosen for The Master Plan?

Lorna Jordan, Environmental Artist and Project Leader

Becca Hanson, Landscape Architecture/Planning/Facilitation
Steve Moddemeyer, Landscape Architecture/Planning/Facilitation
Wendy Brawer, Green Mapping
PBS&J, Engineering/Permitting
Steve Badanes, Sustainable/Community Design
Steve Gatewood, Environment Science

Full Team Biographies

Lorna Jordan statement
My environmental installations use the framework of the garden to reinterpret infrastructure as both process and place. Currently, our civic and industrial infrastructure tends to be coldly conceived while our natural infrastructure is degraded. By integrating process and art, I want to create public places where the distinctions between nature, artifice, and technology are blurred and our consciousness of life-sustaining systems heightened.

How does this relate to gender?

In Earthworks and Beyond, John Beardsley describes my work as paradoxical because it both reiterates and subverts dualities between male and female, culture and nature, and intellect and instinct. He says that while the work is more “domestic, gardenesque, and nurturing than work by men,” it also chafes against these stereotypes. This rings true because of my instinctive impulses to tend and provide comFort while dealing with intellectual and scientific concerns.

For example, Justice Garden Path addresses the justice system by meditating the “wild” and “tame” sides of human nature within a sensuous garden setting. Waterworks Gardens provides an industrial treatment plant with a water-treating garden that shifts the balance from industry to nature while connecting people to the cycles of water. These interventions are elusively feminine.

Lorna Jordan is currently sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission as an artist-in-residence with the Seattle Water Department, identifying possibilities for artist-generated projects. A former Seattle Arts Commissioner, Jordan served as the Vice-Chair of the commission and the Public Art Committee Chair. She was the 1998 recipient of the Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy, Rome Fellowship.

A frequent guest speaker and lecturer, Jordan participated in “Waterworks: a symposium on art and water” sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council at Harvard University and Design Landscape Forum at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where Waterworks Gardens was cited as a notable project.

PROJECTS
Past Projects of Artist Lorna Jordan:

Scottsdale
City of Seattle
Washington