Here and Now/Glacier, Shard, Rock, Creative Time commission, Central Park, NYC, 2015

Lenticular photo in billboard structure, h. 11 ft. w. 12 ft. d. 3.5 ft.

I created a sculptural billboard on the banks of the Harlem Meer in Central Park. It blended contrasting topographic and anthropologic histories through three lenticular images—a glacier, a pottery shard from the historic Seneca Village settlement, and an image of the contemporary landscape. The Wisconsin Glacier travelled through what is now New York City, 20,000 years ago. It created valleys, moved boulders, formed rock outcroppings, carried alluvial debris that was eternally stranded in new locations when the ice sheet melted. Seneca Village was a vibrant Manhattan settlement founded by free black property owners (in 1825) who were displaced when the city claimed the right of 'eminent domain' to purchase their properties and develop Central Park (in 1857). These three images seemed to appear, morph and disappear as the viewers adjusted their perspective.