Part of the Life Underground art installation in the subway station. This particular piece struck me as an urban totem pole: a repository of history and stories (about a time when people used pay phones). But the artist said, back in a 1996 interview in the New York Times, that, in fact, “the impossibility of understanding life in New York is the subject” of these artworks.
Tom Otterness is so great! When the kids were toddlers and we lived in Battery Park City, they HAD to visit this park daily to get their fix of Otterness. They used to spend the better part of their mornings climbing in and around the installations and discovering little people everywhere.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link! I'm not sure I've ever noticed these sculptures in the park.
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