Photo Credit: Liz Helfer via Mosaic Lowell
Artist: Liz Helfer
Date Installed: October 2023
Artist Liz Helfer’s "Flock Together” provides an uplifting sight for the community that lives within the Acre. The installation is composed of laser cut 1/4” translucent neon acrylic pieces that are shaped as silhouettes of Massachusetts’ state bird, the black-capped chickadee.
Over seventy people wrote or drew messages of love for the Acre during two Community Creation Sessions at the Pollard Memorial Library and CTI Farmers Market. These messages were then digitized and etched onto the blue acrylic bird silhouettes, which appear as the middle layer amongst the other non-etched silhouettes. The silhouettes join as one flock along the chain-link fence that stands next to the Ocean Garden Market.
“Flock Together” was produced by Art in the Acre / TDI.
Location: Parking lot next to Ocean Garden Market, 504 Merrimack Street