Restoration Roadmaps Mural
2023, Lincoln High School, Portland, OR., 15’ x 31’ Paint, printed aluminum dibond panelsRestoration Roadmaps overlays different forms of maps to describe the Goose Hollow area, from historical to a hoped for future. The area was once a large farm where Chinese migrants grew vegetables that supplied Portland, an important site where people of many backgrounds traded speaking Chinook jargon; it was also once home to many animal and plant species. It is unceded Indigenous land.
The topographic contours of the map are formed using a collection of responses from a series of workshops with students, staff, alumni, neighbors and community stakeholders in which participants learned about Goose Hollow’s ecological and cultural histories and responded to this prompt about the future of Goose Hollow: What kind of changes to the area would you like to see going into the future? How can you make that a reality?
Community engagement workshops included videos from Dr. Marie Rose-Wong (Portland’s Chinese Community and the Tanner Creek Gardens), Dr. Tracy Prince (Indigenous History of Tanner Creek Area), Jason King (Tanner Creek History), Erik Butler (Tanner Creek Ecological History), and Zadie Prince (Notable Women of Old Portland). To begin the project, Dr. Prince gave a presentation about the Indigenous History of the area in the Lincoln HS library. Created in collaboration with Shu-Ju Wang.