mauxheart
Maureen Hearty's art & community work

Habitat’s design was inspired by concepts around Ecology and Home; and themes around Where We Live. The “we” being all living beings in our communities: flora and fauna. The sculpture Habitats is about recognizing that human’s co-existence with other life forms & their habitats. Included is a listening station with community stories about ecology. Habitats celebrates the forms of shelter along with the ecological flora that also creates habitats.

Kissing Birds, a free-standing steel sculptural trailhead creating a graceful transition space from the Environmental Learning for Kids programming patio to the nature trail. The eco-acoustic sound element is the creative process of the ELK community connecting with their ecological surroundings – incorporating the truth of technology with surrounding realities to generate interconnectedness.

Nature’s Songs was designed considering three elements of ecology: pollination, seed dispersal and sound. Designed for the Environmenal Learning for Kids Center in Montbello, Denver, CO Included is an eco-acoustic sound element; a creative process of the ELK community connecting with their ecological surroundings – incorporating the truth of technology with surrounding realities to generate interconnectedness.

You can walk around and in between, striking the tuned aluminum pipes to create resonate sound as you go. Built from cut-up old wagon wheel rims and aluminum.

The story of a dandelion's life is illustrated in 6 plasma cut steel panels. I wanted it to feel like a fold out picture book, with tuned chimes between each 'page', reminiscent of the old children's audio books; "turn the page when you hear the chime". This piece is in front of Denver Public Libraries Smiley Branch in Berkeley Park.

Monarch Butterfly wings stand like cardinal points around a Milkweed light totem. Each wing has a tuned chime on the inside to encourage connection and play. This piece lives in the Freeport Arts Plaza in Freeport Illionois.

This interactive sound sculpture was built from old wagon wheels and reclaimed aluminum pipes. The pipes act as resonate chimes, tuned to a pentantonic scale. Sound lives in Wray, CO along the river walk.

This piece is permanently installed in the city of Lakewood's art district, on Pierce between Colfax and 16th St.

Music Inside is tuned to a blues scale and part of the city of Broomfield's permanent collection.

This looks like a giant xylophone. When I was building it I was envisioning a waterfall of sound. Sound Fountain is part of the town of Palisade's permanent collection.