SpringWaters

This mixed media installation on the facade of Spring Street Studios was on view through summer 2022.

SpringWaters was an eco-artwork that referenced the neighborhood springs that historically bubbled up from the ground.  Just steps from the Spring Street Studio building was once a series of freshwater springs that flowed into White Oak Bayou.  The groundwater beneath our feet is intrinsically tied to the water cycle and supports a unique Bayou floodplain ecology.

SpringWaters utilized a mix of reclaimed and recyclable materials as a gesture across the facade of the building. The sculpted swathes of color were meant to evoke water movement as a bayou-like flow across the span of the facade punctuated with suspended water vapor clouds.

The project was a continuation of artist Falon Mihalic’s work that explores environmental phenomena through site specific installations, light art, and permanent public art commissions. To learn more, follow them on Instagram @falonland. This project was made possible by funding from the CenterPoint Energy Foundation and Texas Commission on the Arts.

About the Artist

Falon an interdisciplinary artist working in landscape architecture and public art. Her practice is informed by deep studio research and experimentation with materials. She works fluidly with both digital and analog tools to design landscapes and site specific sculpture with a painterly eye for color and its moody affects.

The aspiration for Falon’s work is to understand the relationship between human emotions and the deeply intertwined consciousness to the living systems of which we are a part. This orientation and positioning of human culture as enclosed within nature is an outgrowth of intersectional environmentalism and is influenced by the Kantian Sublime and systems aesthetics of artists like Hans Haacke.