Valley of the Sunflowers
The Desert Initiative is supporting documentation of the Valley of the Sunflowers, a collaborative temporary public art project that is bringing a two-acre field of sunflowers to a vacant city block in downtown Phoenix. The sunflowers will be harvested by students at the BioScience High School who will press the seeds for oil to produce bio-fuel for a hybrid solar/bio-fuel vehicle they have designed and are building.
The project is a collaboration between the BioScience High School and Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation through their Adaptive Reuse of Temporary Space (A.R.T.S.) program. Initial seed funding has been provided by Intel and others.
Project documentation includes photography by Craig Smith and time-lapse photography of the growth of the sunflowers.
