Mary Miss
Battery Park Landfill
New York, New York 1973
Mary Miss’ intallation is located in a large open space. I would consider it an “architectural decor”.Emerging from the ground of this vast space are five billboardlike structures.The first structure has a full circle,in every other structure the circle sinks down gradually into the ground. Mary Missuses the ground as an element of her installation, the ground becomes part of the structure since the circles look like they are sinking down in it. Geometry and repetition is used. “the unimposing structureshold a series of clearly articulated concentric circles descending into the ground, as though a column of air were being defined as it tunneled into the ground...” A straight line is used to place the structures and they are each 50 feet apart. The viewer, coming from the North side, can not see the project as he isapproaching it. However, as the viewer walks to the front he can start seeing the project. The viewer needsto get involved with the piece in order to get every aspect and view of it. These structures give a sense of howvast and deserted the land is, they have no boudaries. The front view looks combines all the void circles and looks like a sunset into the ground.
Battery Park Landfill
New York, New York 1973
Mary Miss’ intallation is located in a large open space. I would consider it an “architectural decor”.Emerging from the ground of this vast space are five billboardlike structures.The first structure has a full circle,in every other structure the circle sinks down gradually into the ground. Mary Missuses the ground as an element of her installation, the ground becomes part of the structure since the circles look like they are sinking down in it. Geometry and repetition is used. “the unimposing structureshold a series of clearly articulated concentric circles descending into the ground, as though a column of air were being defined as it tunneled into the ground...” A straight line is used to place the structures and they are each 50 feet apart. The viewer, coming from the North side, can not see the project as he isapproaching it. However, as the viewer walks to the front he can start seeing the project. The viewer needsto get involved with the piece in order to get every aspect and view of it. These structures give a sense of howvast and deserted the land is, they have no boudaries. The front view looks combines all the void circles and looks like a sunset into the ground.
2 comments:
anymore drawings? metaphor?
please update.
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