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"Endless Summer"
Summer 2025 - Urban Heat
"Endless Summer" is the second of four artworks that I am creating for my year-long “Climate of Future Past” project about seasonal risks in four vulnerable communities around D.C. This ongoing project is my response to a Washington The Post commission of four artworks in its 2025 “Four Seasons” collaboration with the artist.
Summer 2025 - Urban Heat
"Endless Summer" is the second of four artworks that I am creating for my year-long “Climate of Future Past” project about seasonal risks in four vulnerable communities around D.C. This ongoing project is my response to a Washington The Post commission of four artworks in its 2025 “Four Seasons” collaboration with the artist.
"Endless Summer" (Sol dell'Avvenire) 2025 - detail
"Endless Summer" (Sol dell'Avvenire) 2025
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 The "bike lobby" wall before the "Endless Summer" mural (2024)
"Endless Summer" lives on the wall of a large open atrium inside the Burton building connecting the Metropolitan Branch Trail to Florida Avenue in the NoMa neighborhood in Washington, DC.
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The concentration of rail and industrial uses and the lower incidence of urban green in Northeast DC translates in much higher summer temperatures for communities in the area like NoMa and Eckington. On hot summer days the temperature in Northeast DC's hottest neighborhoods can be higher than the temperature in more green neighborhoods in Northwest DC by 17 degree Fahrenheits.
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The "bike lobby" where "Endless Summer" resides is a cooling space that is often used by residents and trail users to cool off and to get in shade which is at a premium on the trail. Thus, the mural and the bike lobby are both warnings about rising temperatures as well as offer a urban design and architectural solution to the issue of shade and cooler spaces.
