2021年4月，弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚在滨水公园（王子街1号）推出最新公共艺术装置Groundswell。该临时装置由Mark Reigelman设计，是《聚焦场域：老城区新视野》年度公共艺术系列中继Olalekan Jeyifous设计的《锻造，编织，劳工，遗产》（2020）和SOFTlab设计的《魔镜魔镜》（2019）装置后的第三个作品，将展出至2021年11月。

April, 2021 – Alexandria, Va. – The City of Alexandria unveils its newest public art installation, Groundswell, in Alexandria’s Waterfront Park (1 Prince St.). This new temporary installation by Mark Reigelman is the third in the Site See: New Views in Old Town annual public art series, and will be on display through November 2021. It follows Olalekan Jeyifous’s 2020 installation Wrought, Knit, Labors, Legacies and SOFTlab’s 2019 Mirror Mirror installation.

▼项目概览，general view © Wilson Modern

Reigelman受委托为滨水公园建造独有的装置，由于岸线深入波托马克河，他便将重点放在亚历山德里亚可操作的滨水区上。在研究中，他了解到这座城市的河岸线受制于极端措施，从18世纪开始，每十年就有数以千计的木桩蔓延至波托马克河，勾勒出这座城市不断变化的轮廓。亚历山德里亚从河堤小镇发展为拥有广阔码头的城镇，数英里的人工开垦土地在岸边蔓延开来。

▼蔓延的码头，the sprawling dock

Commissioned to create an original installation for Waterfront Park, Reigelman focused on Alexandria’s working waterfront as the shoreline crept further into the Potomac River. In his research, he learned that drastic measures manipulated the city’s shoreline. Starting in the 18th century, thousands of timber pilings sprawled further into the Potomac River each decade, outlining the city’s shifting foundation. Alexandria grew from a town on a lofty riverbank to one with a sprawling dock that stretched along miles of artificially reclaimed land.

▼装置鸟瞰，aerial view © Laura Hatcher