Re-Site 2024 | Ling-Wen Tsai – Ahead of Schedule @ Greenbelt Walkway
11:00am-12:30pm
*Rain date: June 23, 11 am - 12:30 pm
One of five artists of Re-Site 2.0, a site-specific, temporary public art project and Portland history-telling initiative, Ling-Wen Tsai hosts Ahead of Schedule, a site-specific installation along the Mill Cove salt marsh visualizing the sea-level rise and drawing attention to the importance and vulnerability of the ecosystem.
The guided walking tour will be hosted by Ling-Wen Tsai and Seth Goldstein, Director of Cushing’s Point Museum and Director of Development at South Portland Historical Society. We recommend wearing comfortable walking shoes and bringing a reusable water bottle.
Ling-Wen Tsai’s Ahead of Schedule is a site-specific installation along the Mill Cove salt marsh featuring wooden stakes cut at various heights and painted with environmentally friendly milk paint to visualize the sea-level rise and to draw attention to the importance and vulnerability of the ecosystem that depends on its health. While working with the low point of the open green space, there will be more than 850 stakes to represent each of the different species of marine life that inhabit the Casco Bay Estuary and visualize the changing sea levels and how this has changed over time. Historical touchpoints include the history of Mill Cove and the Grist Mill and Shipyard, and railroad history of this area.