![]() It was just full on with the Covid and the Black Lives Matter protests. Though other circumstances in the world kick-started the hobby as well. With help from his mother, who is a horticulturist, he achieved his goal earlier than expected. Tilling the eight-acre plot in New South Wales is a relatively new project for the Grammy-winning artist, though it is one he’s aspired to tackle for ages. I think you call them peppers? Then there’s some pumpkin, kale, spinach, all the herbs,” says Streten, casually rolling off the contents of his garden, during an early-morning call with DJ Mag. Harley Edward Streten, on the other hand, prefers a little peace and quiet. Getting them involved is the best way to overcome opposition.Flume fills arenas, smashes stage props with sledgehammers, and builds booming soundscapes with the high-tech gear that fills his ever-expanding studio. So you have to be able to speak to them in visual language and then be able to back it up with the way you explain it. What you're doing is just explaining something about the context and history of what you're doing. Mainly, it's engagement, telling people about themselves. The water district was absolutely stellar in their way of handling this. ![]() So you've got to be honest, you got to be out there, and you got to face whatever's there. ![]() "What I learned is you can do stuff that's controversial if you handle it correctly. "Handling public art has to be done very carefully," Wilsterman said. He wanted them to experience being part of a public art project and seeing it through to completion.īut Wilsterman learned from both the water tower and a previous public art controversy in Carlsbad about needing to engage the community in the process. That is one of the reasons that he had his students back in the 1990s help create the clouds for the water tower. Unique in that it is two tanks in one using hydraulics to serve the different needs of two water districts, and it was designed to never need exterior maintenance.Ĭarlos Castillo Artist Jim Wilsterman shows a photo of himself (in hard hat) with his father and his students on site of the Cloud Project in the mid 1990s. As an engineer, I personally really think it's very creative, and I think this tank is unique. "One of the reasons we decided to engage an artist on this project and make a public art piece is because this really is a unique tank for our system. "We knew this tank was going to be seen for miles and miles around, and so we wanted to make it a feature and not a distraction from the environment," said Timothy Ross, Helix Water District's current director of engineering. Helix Water District agreed then and now. Because you hide a water tank, they don't think about it." That's what this was about, to try to make people think about where our water comes from. "A decade or two later, here we are with a water shortage. "People here, they see green, they see lawns, they see trees, they think this is the way things are," Wilsterman said. Water has always been an important issue to him and he wanted to remind people where our water comes from, whether it’s clouds bringing rain or a water tower servicing a community. The context Wilsterman was eager to discuss was water. Wilsterman gratefully noted that at the time only The Reader provided context for the controversy. Undated photo.ĭuring that controversy in the late 1990s, Wilsterman said no one from the local TV news stations ever bothered to speak to him or to even consider why someone would put clouds on a water tower. Jim Wilsterman A photo from artist Jim Wilsterman showing one of the clouds and where it would be placed on the water tower.
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