Visitors are invited to imagine the park as it might be at different points in the past and the future.

Five sculptures along the park path act as fanciful lenses for time-travel viewing. Each sculpture features a set of intersecting stainless steel arcs supporting a circular glass panel. The glasses, each unique, are layered with shapes of mirror and dichroic film in the shapes of arcs, circles, and moons, referencing the passing of time. Looking through the glass, the mirrors and filters play tricks with vision, combining transformed views of the grassy park with glimpses of the viewer and the background surroundings.

Along with the sculptures, the art project contains an audio component: A sign on the path, near the library and city hall, invites people to visit a website through a QR code or www.imaginethisplace.org. The site contains audio clips of people with particular insights into the area describing how they imagine the past and future of the park. They include a historian, a sustainability expert, a geologist, a flood control expert, the head of Goodyear Parks and Recreation, an ecologist, the parks supervisor, a long-time Goodyear resident, an artist, and farmworkers from when the park was a wash through agricultural fields collected by a history professor, and kids who play in the park.

Article about the project

Date: 2023
Location: Bullard Wash Park, Goodyear, AZ
Commissioning Agency: Goodyear Public Art
Details: Stainless steel, glass with mirrored and dichroic interlayers, web-based audio
Project Manager: Guylene Ozlanski
Project Management Assistant: Layne Ruiz
Fabrication: E2 Innovations, Meltdown Glass