Public Art - Madison, Indiana

All Day Green
(nickname: cartwheel)
Madison Area Arts Alliance and the City of Madison, Indiana
Installation day: Friday, October 16, 2026

I am especially honored for All Day Green to become part of Madison, Indiana, a community that has inspired and supported my artistic practice over many years, especially during my time as professor at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. This public art project continues my interest in transforming familiar forms into objects that connect commerce, landscape, labor, and everyday life. I am grateful for the opportunity to return to Madison this October to install the work and see it become part of the community.

All Day Green is a new permanent public sculpture created for Madison, Indiana, composed of laser-cut steel forms based on the familiar silhouette of a shopping cart. Repeated and arranged into a large circular, doily-like pattern, 24 cart silhouettes mark the 24 hours of the day, shifting a recognizable symbol of commerce into pattern, structure, and image.

Shopping carts are designed for movement through systems of commerce. They carry groceries, household necessities, and the repeated purchases of everyday life. In All Day Green, the doily-like pattern of shopping carts resembles both an oversized flower and a rototiller turning over a garden.

Green operates throughout the project in several ways. The sculpture will be finished in DG Market green, directly connecting it to its site and the visual language of the store. At the same time, green carries broader associations with money and exchange, landscape and vegetation, growth and renewal. Installed within a pollinator garden, the sculpture brings together ideas of consumption, sustenance, and cultivation.

The shopping cart is also an image tied to choice, abundance, and necessity. Grocery stores occupy a particular place within communities as commercial spaces that are also part of the infrastructure of daily life. In All Day Green, the individual cart becomes part of a larger pattern, transforming something routinely encountered and easily overlooked into a special visual symbol.

From a distance, the sculpture reads as a unified circular form that is industrial, ornamental, botanical, and architectural.

Special thanks to Kim Nyberg and the Madison Public Art Commission, DG Market in Madison, the City of Madison, Stealth Industries, and AZZ Surface Technologies, along with the teams who have contributed to site and concrete preparation and who will be planting the pollinator garden. I am grateful for the expertise, collaboration, and care that so many people have brought to realizing All Day Green.