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- 1. SARAH SZE: STILLLIFE WITH LANDSCAPE (MODEL FOR A HABITAT) Wen Niao Qu
- 2. June 8, 2011- June, 2012 • On the High Line, between West 20th and West 21st Streets.
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- 9. View from Southof High Line View from North of High Line
- 10. Goals “highlighting the waythe High Line frames nature within this distinct urban space” “ thinking about the sculpture as a site of experimentation” “finding a way for the sculpture to be essentially tied to the experience of movement on the High Line, rather than being another object to simply pass by.”
- 11. Materials “In keeping withthe desire to disseminate the sculpture into the larger city, I choose mirrored stainless steel for the main structure. The reflective surface fractures and mirrors the surrounding landscape while also amplifying the effect of the changing light over the course of the day. The thin steel mimics the quality of a drawn line, emphasizing the sculpture as a perspective drawing in space.”
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Describe High Line Park: The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. The High Line is located on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.
- #4 Describe High Line Park: The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. The High Line is located on Manhattan's West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.
- #5 Contemporary Artist, born in Boston work in NYC, uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations, professor at Columbia shows in japan englandfrancegermany brazil
- #6 Sze's practice exists at the intersection of sculpture, painting and architecture where her formal interest in light, air and movement is coupled with an intuitive understanding of colour and texture.
- #7 Twoperspectival architectural models that are bisected by the High Line path itself. The sculpture forms an open gateway that visually frames the views to the north and south, also allows park visitors to physically enter and pass through the space it outlines.
- #8 The architecture, complex and dynamic, acts as a bird, butterfly and insect observatory, with perches, feeding spots and birdbaths throughout.
- #9 What makes it good: Emerging from the shooting perspective lines of the landscape of the High Line, the sculpture extends through space like a perspective drawing in three dimensions. Very interesting
- #10 Perspective drawing in 3d: the view is different from every corner
- #11 Specially made for the high line
- #12 Interesting: site specific, made for this one place, unlike other paintings and sculptures that u can move around and display at different placesThe use of straight linesDifferent from her different works, this is doesn’t look as colorful but also unlike her other ones this model incorporates nature
- #13 “Living art” it is constantly changing. Looks different every time go depending on the time. The number/type of birds there. The weather. Looks different at winter and summerIt is not the model that makes up the artwork, it is the model at this place interacting with natureSomething new: the birds or any other animals are part of this artwork. “not another object to simply pass by.”
- #14 Not made so people can see it, so they can just walk by n think its beautiful, it is a place made for the living creatures in high line, people can also stay and observe the birds