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"Window" series


​Window


Riverside Park South 61st Street, New York, NY
May 2014 - May 2015


2014 
Size: H 13'  W 15'  L 18'  
Material: Steel tubes, cast resin and acrylic panels

"Window" was made possible by the Model to Monument public art program, granted by The Art Students League of NY, and The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. 


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Window II​​

Rye Town Park and Beach, Rye, NY
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

Currently on view at Oeno Gallery Sculpture Garden, Ontario, Canada

​2019
Size: H 10'  W 11'  L 12.5'  
Material: stainless steel, steel, paint, fabric, acrylic

Window series is a colorful large scale interactive sculpture incorporating a functional swing. The sculpture takes a dome-like shape with six clear acrylic windows where viewers can look in and out. Reddish colors contrast with the grey, blue, green colors of the cityscape. Its swing experience is extraordinary since the swing motion happens between the internal prismatic environment and the external landscape. It brings the sensation of traveling in and out of the spaces of different colors—like a sci-fi time-travel machine. Unlike conventional swing’s chain handles, it employs metal pipes which creates smooth movement without side to side motion. 

Public comments:
Peggy Roalf, chief editor of AI-AP magazine, reviewed, “Window II  also looks like a giant plaything—so irresistible that I found myself inside of it and flying through the air within minutes of seeing it last fall.”

An instagram user commented in July 2020, “Window II  has the ability to send me to an alternative reality, one that operates on joy and harmony, not fear and hate. Thank you from the bottom of my heart”.

Rye Art Center Public Art Initiative

Confession

West 132nd St, Harlem Community Garden  
September - October, 2020


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Currently on view at Oeno Gallery Sculpture Garden, Ontario, Canada​
2020
Size: H62" W29" L72"

Medium: steel, stainless steel, composite wood

“Confession” takes the form of a reclining chair where visitors can lay down and relax to reflect upon and have an intimate conversation with themselves. It seems to be a nicely designed reclining chair at the first glance, and when they lay down on it, they will find themselves in reflection on a convex mirror that cannot be seen from other angles. While in an open public space, viewers can be absorbed in a private self-reflecting moment, juxtaposing the self-image against the surroundings such as trees in the garden and the sky: they are physically out in public, but mentally slipping into their internal visions. The concept of the work was inspired by the “Window” series.

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