This Thursday’s ProJo had a half-page review of sculptor Donald Gerola’s installation, ‘Weaving the Blackstone’. Written by Erika Niedowski via the Associated Press, the article includes a night view of cables across the falls. I kind of think our paper of record might have covered this, but I know how things go in Rhode Island– we’re not the Daily Planet…

Jimmy: Stop the presses! I got a hot scoop– art installation in Pawtucket!

Clark: Well, I don’t know about that, Jimmy.. Pawtucket’s kind of off our beat.

Lois: Yeah Jimmy, and they got that bridge thing with the road construction– who wants to get stuck in that?

Jimmy: Chief, we can’t let the Pawtucket Times scoop us again! How about that stringer, the one who covers City Hall– it’s right next to Slater Mill where the installation is…

Perry White: We’ve run through our budget on strings. Associated Press has a reporter coming in from Rome. She can stop off in Pawtucket on her way to the West Coast.

So, The Pawtucket Times got the story.

December 30, 2011
By
DONNA KENNY KIRWAN

PAWTUCKET — From the Main Street bridge by day, the Blackstone River and historic Slater Mill can be viewed through a network of brightly colored cords that shimmer in the sunlight. At nighttime, the reflective filaments in the cords appear to send off a laser light show through the mist generated from the rushing water below.
On Christmas Eve, artist Donald Gerola put the finishing touches on his ambitious “Weaving the Blackstone” project. In a process that began in the fall, Gerola strung and crisscrossed industrial strength fiber cords into geometric patterns that span the river along the Slater Mill property.

Read the rest here.

Donald Gerola has created scores of wind-operated monumental kinetic sculptures. You can see them at his website here. His studio is on Mineral Spring Ave., which is not too far away.