Florida ‘Eco-Art’ seeks to blend aesthetics & environment

The new “Living Shoreline” is shown in this July 9, 2015 aerial handout photo provided by Palm Beach County July 14, 2015 in Lake Worth, Florida. REUTERS/Palm Beach County/Handout via Reuters

In a growing trend that seeks to blend art with environmental restoration, a water filtration project was unveiled on Tuesday along a 575-foot sea-walled stretch of the intracoastal waterway in South Florida.

The new Living Shoreline, designed by Vermont artist Michael Singer, is billed as “Eco-Art,” which its patrons describe as “art with a job to do.”

The $149,000 project grew out of Palm Beach County’s work to improve water quality in the Lake Worth Lagoon which, in typical Florida fashion, previously involved piling up rocks in front of seawalls to try to regenerate some of the natural marine habitat lost to development.

Singer’s proposal to improve the aesthetics in collaboration with biologists and marine engineers received a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts…

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