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"Confession" - West 132nd Street Block Association  Garden / September 5 - October 3, 2020

Confession

2020
Size: H 65"  W 30"  L 70" 
Material: stainless steel, steel, wood

"Window II" - Rye Town Park, Rye, New York / June 2019 - September 2020​​

Window II

2019
Size: H 10'  W 11'  L 12.5'  
Material: stainless steel, steel, paint, fabric and 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. 
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Visitors frequently comment on how they have never experienced a swing like Window or Window II. One wrote me to say that “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”. While a writer on 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.”
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Rye Art Center Public Art Initiative

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"Window" - Riverside Park South, Manhattan / May 2014 - May 2015

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

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