As an artist, I’m inspired by the natural world but I’m also inspired by the art other artists create and how that work is displayed. In this blog post I explore the different types of art I observed on and near the High Line. The thoughtfully curated art on the High Line is primarily sculpture,…
During the past two weeks I’ve spent time exploring New York City’s High Line. Last week I wrote about how the High Line spaces create a sense of both expanse and enclosure. This week I consider how the park design fosters strolling and sitting, and why those two activities are potentially important for park visitor…
This week I visited New York City’s High Line, a former urban freight railway that has been re-envisioned as a public park. The High Line provides a purposeful contrast to the Ruston Way waterfront (Tacoma, WA) as both share an industrial history, are sites of preservation and transformation, and have deep connections to rail transport.…
In addition to my exploration of the Ruston Way waterfront, in the coming months I will be visiting other re-constructed industrial sites: Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, High Line in New York, and Benesse Art Projects in Japan. This week I visited Olympic Sculpture Park, a former UNOCAL petroleum transfer and distribution center that has…