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| Enter Oak Wisdom, Baltimore |
| Druid Hill Park is one of the oldest landscaped parks in the United States. Its trees and waters that have served generations of Baltimore residents. Efforts are underway to protect and reinvigorate the park as it celebrates its 150th year.
The new Gwynn Falls entrance to the park, near the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens, will be marked by William Cochran's Oak Wisdom, a sculpture comprised of six glass, iron and bronze trilithons. This seventy-four foot colonnade of salvaged iron is an abstraction of a sacred grove. Fiery, transparent, shattered glass entablatures hold silkscreened public memories of the park. The environmental artwork is a standing prayer for the wisdom to rethink our relationship with the natural world.
Research shows that Druid Hill Park was named for giant oaks that once shaded its hills. Legend has it that Druids worshiped in sacred oak groves - the word Druid means "oak knower" or "oak wisdom." The land that became this park was ceded by the Susquehannock Indians. Both prehistoric peoples are associated with a belief in the sacred interconnectedness of life. |
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