Borelli + Ashland Project on Boston Globe Front Page

Prospectus artist Dan Borelli’s work in his hometown of Ashland, MA, made the front page of The Boston Globe on Thursday, February 19, 2015 in a feature article by Kathleen Burge titled “Ashland artist offers healing vision at site of harm.” Here’s how the article begins:

“This town has what local artist Dan Borelli calls a “folklore of color.” A waterway near the town’s Nyanza dye plant was nicknamed “Chemical Brook” because its color changed — one day blue, one day purple — depending on what tint the plant was producing. The federal government calls the old plant a Superfund site. But Borelli sees a chance for healing.

“He is trying to transform the legacy of this frightening place — where companies made dyes that were later linked to rare forms of cancer among his friends and other townspeople — from despair into art.

“Borelli hopes to create a public garden and memorial site whose hues will reflect the colors of the chemical dyes. He has been talking to town officials about placing the garden on a piece of land near the former Nyanza plant. He has even proposed changing the colors of the streetlights for one night to reflect the contaminants that are still in the soil….”

The full article can be accessed here. Dan’s plans in Ashland are a direct outgrowth of his contribution to the Prospectus, The Cloud of Unknowing.