Former Smith College President Jill Ker Conway commissioned Michael Singer to create an outdoor sculpture for her property in Conway, Massachusetts. This distinctive site is a terraced woodland lot with mature pine trees and small ponds at two levels of the site. Singer created a curved stone retaining wall at the uppermost terrace as a way to unite the garden. The base of the retaining wall forms a platform for Sangam Ritual Series, a granite, bronze and pre-cast concrete sculpture. The sculpture is designed to enclose a cistern for water pumped from the lower ponds. The water brings sound to the site as it recycles through a filtration stream and trough to the lower ponds.

Adjacent to the site was a former writing studio for Ms. Conway overlooking the sculpture and ponds. The studio was removed in 2003 and replaced with the Tree Pavilion, a spare contemplative shelter 14' x 16' with a planted roof and stone walkways. The pavilion has built-in furniture and panels of opening screens.

Artist / Designer: Michael Singer
Project Manager: David Loomis
Builders: David Loomis, Peter Vandertuin, Eric Slayton, Rob Guerrina, Bob Hannum
Stone Walls: Luis Pagano
Drafting: John Guminak and Jason Bregman
Photography: David Stansbury

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