Reed’s Basket Willow Swamp Park is a public park in Staten Island. The site is a confluence of historical, ecological, and social forces shaped by willows, water, and the will of the people who have lived in, around, and in spite of it. A family farm planted in willows by an eccentric farmer in the 1800s, the land was acquired in the late 1970’s by the state, and eventually assumed its current role as a site of public drainage, hemmed in by affluent suburbs. On Willlowed Ground is an investigation of layered, contradictory, and complicating narratives embedded in a landscape. It is about a place and the stories we tell about a place. It is a study in observational making, the first phase in a design proposal, and the seeded grounds for a new fable that blends mythology and the mundane in these muddy waters.