TEMPOart was thrilled to be featured in Maine Home + Design’s beautiful publication in August 2024. Here is a stunning photo from Pete Fitz of Buoy Media and part of the article. You can read the full article here on Maine Home + Design’s website.
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Photo: Pete Fitz of Buoy Media
“Visitors to Portland’s BACK COVE TRAIL will spot some new animal friends this summer: a pair of 20-foot-tall egrets performing their distinctive mating dance. The bamboo sculpture called Dancing for Joy (By the Will of the People) is a temporary public art installation by internationally renowned artists Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein of THE MYTH MAKERS. According to TEMPOART, the nonprofit organization that commissioned the sculpture, “The collaboration between Dodson and Moerlein [grew] out of a mutual love of the wild: Dodson takes inspiration from the mysterious nature of birds that spark her imagination, and Moerlein takes inspiration from events in the natural world that leave visual marks and strike a narrative chord in the artist. Although monumental in scale, their ephemeral bamboo sculptures are temporary in nature. Made from natural materials, they are site specific and respond to their local audience.” Dancing for Joy will be on display until 2026.”