Mountain Line Downtown Connection Center, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2025

Southside Grove is a circular arrangement of sculptural weathering steel trunks inspired by both Ponderosa pine trees and telescopes. The trunks are aligned to celestial events. At the center of the grove is a granite “time table” carved with lines woven into the form of tree rings and words describing historic events significant to the Southside community where the artwork is located. At solar noon on the Equinoxes, a beam of sunlight casts through a hole in the southernmost trunk and onto the center of the table.

Southside Grove was commissioned by the City of Flagstaff; steel fabrication and installation by Magnum; granite fabrication by Sebastian Martorana and Hilgartner Natural Stone Company.