{"id":1863,"date":"2012-06-11T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2012-06-11T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:10:56","slug":"art-experiments-on-us-high-line-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/art-experiments-on-us-high-line-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Experiments on Us: High Line Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High Line Park, NYC<\/p><\/div>\n

Clever minds are at work in public art spaces.\u00a0 I was walking High Line Park in NYC with my family this weekend when we came upon a theater-type, open air seating area which descended downward, with windows at the bottom overlooking the traffic of 10th<\/sup> street that ran directly below.\u00a0 We gladly sat for a while, looking out the \u201cscreens\u201d at the flowing taxis, thinking about how life is art if you look at it differently.\u00a0 Is \u201cstreetscape\u201d a word?\u00a0 Probably.<\/p>\n

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View of 10th Ave from the seating area<\/p><\/div>\n

This streetscape had a vanishing point, color, motion, and real-time change, and it was fun to see kids come down and press their faces to the glass, practically toppling into the traffic, but safe.\u00a0 I liked how the seating invited us to watch, like that was what we were called to do, unlike when you stand on a bridge, for instance, looking over the rail.<\/p>\n

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View of the seating area from 10th Ave.<\/p><\/div>\n

Imagine my delight when my family returned to street level, and we looked back at where we\u2019d been sitting.\u00a0 From below, the same glass windows were again screens, but this time we were looking in, at the viewers in the theater area.\u00a0 When someone walked across the front carrying a white pole, a microphone boom, over his shoulder, we saw the movement from screen to screen, and realized there had to be some degree of magnification in the glass from this direction.\u00a0 The people above were super clear, super vivid.<\/p>\n

It was wonderfully odd.\u00a0 And then it hit me: we\u2019d been there shortly before, ourselves.\u00a0 If that theater space was now the artwork, we\u2019d been in it.\u00a0 We\u2019d been the subjects.\u00a0 But now we were the outside artwork for those observing from within.<\/p>\n

We were art, on both sides of the glass, observers and subjects both times.\u00a0 I felt this leap of a connection to whatever mind set up the puzzle game in the first place, knowing that some day people like us would come and relish it.\u00a0 That\u2019s vision.\u00a0 That\u2019s trust.\u00a0 And I\u2019m grateful.<\/p>\n

The art was simply there, with no interpretive guide or anything, just waiting for us to entertain ourselves, experience it, and be changed forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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