Gentle Breeze (23 ft pink metal tree with swings, 11th and Idaho)

Boise, Idaho, United States

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Gentle Breeze, installed in 2021 in Cherie Buckner-Webb Park at 11th and Bannock, Boise, is a pink metal tree by Matthew Mazzotta with 748 moving leaves and three swings. The city and artist give its height as 23 feet; the city's collection page says 26.

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Gentle Breeze (23 ft pink metal tree with swings, 11th and Idaho)

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Site-level location · 43.6189° N, 116.2062° W

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A bright pink tree on a small hill is the unexpected centrepiece of a half-acre downtown park in Boise, and it has swings.

Matthew Mazzotta's Gentle Breeze stands in Cherie Buckner-Webb Park, on a corner that was a private surface parking lot before the City of Boise and the Capital City Development Corporation turned it into a park. Boise City Council approved Mazzotta's selection in December 2019. He held an "outdoor living room" session in January 2020 to gather opinions, then offered two design concepts; of nearly 200 comments gathered in a later public survey, a majority favoured Gentle Breeze.

The artist says the name comes from the winds that flow into the city from the surrounding mountains and river valley, and that the pink was drawn from local cherry blossoms and Boise sunsets. The tree carries 748 leaves, each moving in the breeze, and three swings hang from its branches. He describes the tree as 23 feet tall on a 3-foot berm; the city's press release at the August 2021 dedication also said 23 feet, while the city's public art collection page says 26.

The park is named for Cherie Buckner-Webb, the first Black woman elected to the Idaho Legislature, according to the city. It was dedicated on 5 August 2021 alongside the park.

The park is open from sunrise to sunset, according to the city, and parking nearby is metered street parking. The artist describes the swings as open to the public.

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A pink metal tree on a grassy rise with three swings under its canopy, in a half-acre downtown park. The city lists the park as open sunrise to sunset, with metered on-street parking.

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Cherie Buckner-Webb Park, 1100 W Bannock St, Boise, at 11th Street; a public city park open sunrise to sunset, with metered on-street parking nearby.

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