In 2003-4, the City of West Palm Beach redesigned its premier park, 113 acre Dreher Park, to improve storm water capacity and enhance recreation areas. Artist team Jackie Brookner and Angelo Ciotti were commissioned to be part of the Design Team and work on an art concept throughout the park. Seeing the potential to create a new identity for this part of the park, Brookner/Ciotti designed Elders’ Cove, which includes a fourteen foot Biosculpture™ in North Lake (one of the new detention ponds), a viewing and fishing dock, wetland habitats, a cluster of earth mounds that reclaim and sculpt the soil from the lake excavations, and a playground that draws on the area’s rich Seminole history. The heart of Elders’ Cove is the Elders’ Cove Biosculpture™, a vegetated sculpture with mist and drip fountains that aerates and filters the lake water. The sculpture, a focal point for gathering and contemplation, calls attention to the large banyan trees that inspired its form and that are abundant in Dreher Park. The location of the dock across the lake draws people around to experience the lake, the surrounding trees, and the sculpture from many vantages. The nearby “Choko Lochi” playground was designed in consultation with Seminole Elders and based on historic Seminole Villages. Embraced by a 28’ high mound, it features an authentic palm shelter, dugout canoe, and native vegetation that the Seminoles used for baskets, textiles, medicine, and food. The artists’ use of the soil from the lake excavations and their earth-moving techniques saved the City over $1,000,000 in earth removal costs. Brookner/Ciotti also felt it was important to commemorate the site’s natural history as part of the original Everglades ecosystem. The opportunity arose when they heard the team’s plan to remove three existing islands in two of the other lakes because they were overtaken with Australian pine, an invasive tree. Instead, they suggested they save the islands and plant Cypress swamp “Everglades” ecosystems.