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Creative Life
00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9ab20000Our series Creative Life discontinued on October 30th, 2017. It has been replaced by Ways of Life. The Creative Life archive lives on this page. Creative Life offered an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on the Cape and Islands. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell.Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.Creative Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Underground Art: Finding Inspiration through Archeology in the Middle of New Bedford.

Brooklawn Park in New Bedford has a soccer field, a playground, and asphalt paths winding around a small, grassy hill. It also contains the buried foundations of several buildings, remnants of an estate that no longer exists there. With the help of some friends, a professional archaeologist, and the city government, a local artist named Carl Simmons uncovered these remains. And he’s shared the findings in some unexpected ways.

The uncovering of this building led Carl to undertake other projects in Brooklawn Park. Some are archaeologically-based. Others are not. Taken together, Carl Simmons considers them to be ‘found land art’, public sculptures that reveal the history of  Brooklawn Park. Through these subtle and surprising projects, Carl’s work illustrates all the different ways the past can leave its mark on the present.