Resilience – Five Points Park – Norfolk, Virginia

Designed and implemented by Sean Orlando, Lead Artist at Engineered Artworks, Resilience is an immersive sculptural space that serves as a gateway to the newly developed Five Points Park. Commissioned by the Norfolk Arts Commission and Five Points Park Planning Committee, Resilience was fabricated by the Engineered Artworks team and transported by Artifact Logistics, Engineered Artworks’ sister company. Engineered Artworks collaborated with Norfolk’s civil engineers to install the 22’ x 13’ work in the Norview neighborhood. 

Artist Sean Orlando remarks: 

I wanted to create a piece that represented the interconnectedness of the neighborhood and community. This piece is made up of 23 unique and individual blades of grass that come together to support each other within a unified circular form.

When I think of trees, branches and blades of grass, I am reminded of the tremendous ability that nature possesses to bend under pressure before breaking.

Members of the Norview community are all unique, hardworking individuals, and when we come together as a community to support each other with common purpose, we are stronger.

Specs:

22’ x 22’ x 13’

Steel, weather resistant coating, cement