Snake Culvert

Snake Culvert

Sculpture

 1143 Northwestern Avenue, Austin, TX, 78702

Art in Public Places commissioned T. Paul Hernandez to create Snake Culvert, an environmental sculpture in the distant field that also functions as a culvert for a dry retention pond. The snake imagery alludes to connections with nature and ancient mystic religions. The dual function of the sculpture, as an artwork and a culvert, T.Paul Hernandez suggests “a rite of passage for the water entering back into the environment to once again start its life again. The sculpture becomes a marker to this water ritual with the snakes as its guide.”