Located throughout Junction Plaza, in Junction Springs the artists have woven a beautiful tapestry of diverse and interconnected living things, incorporating flora and fauna from the North Carolina mountains, piedmont and coast. The overarching theme is water, a natural resource and a basic requirement for life. The mural depicts the movement of water from a mountain spring towards a river basin and finally into the sea. Rain clouds in the distance remind us that water falls, is absorbed into the earth or flows in rivers and creeks, evaporates, forms clouds and falls again, in an endless cycle.
This vast installation includes a thirty-one-foot mural, a twelve-foot-long inlaid stream, a thirty-one-foot-long bench, water fountains*, and twelve eight-foot-tall columns throughout Junction Plaza.
*The water fountain features of Junction Springs have been removed.
