File:Tricia Ward Spiraling Orchard 1996-2014.jpg

Public environmental work by Tricia Ward/ACLA, La Tierra de la Culebra (1992–present, Highland Park Neighborhood, Los Angeles). The image illustrates a key practice in Tricia Ward's career in the 1990s and 2000s when she increasingly undertook collaborative community projects involving the remediation and transformation of toxic urban sites into "pocket parks." This image shows "Spiraling Orchard," a park in the transitional Temple-Beaudry neighborhood that Ward and ACLA created with the community by reclaiming a half-acre, non-arable former oil field. The work included an environmental process called phytoremediation, planting a garden of fruit trees, the creation of a pavilion and symbolic sculptural pieces, and community and educational programs. The park remained active for nearly two decades. This work has been widely discussed in major daily press publications.

Artist Tricia Ward. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Tricia Ward's career in the 1990s and 2000s: her environmental and social practice art, which engaged community constituencies in projects involving open space, arts, education, and youth development, often through the transformation of abandoned or toxic urban sites into "pocket parks." This work included environmental remediation, urban gardening, design and artmaking, cultural and educational programming, and public policy. It was largely undertaken through the nonprofit organization she founded, ACLA (Art Community Land Activism). Writers have noted her unique methodology in this work, which focused on community acceptance, flexible nonprofit management, and a notion of public space as continually contested territory. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this major stage and body of work, which brought Ward recognition in mainstream media outlets and publications. Ward's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other work of this type by Tricia Ward, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.