Monday, August 29, 2022

Interrupted flow

Cristina Iglesias' site specific installation "Landscape and Memory" in Madison Square Park endeavors to do for the creek that flows deep below that park (Cedar Creek) what I've tried in classes to do for Minetta Creek. “Can you sense it down there deep beneath us?” She crafted five bronze water sculptures, linked by a skein of grasses, to give the impression that the creek is still near the surface. Mirrors make them seem portals to an underground world but I don't think the're actually connected. (I assume not; I think as an art work it would make more sense if they weren't.) Parkgoers seem as oblivious as last year's. I can't make up my mind whether I like this one or not.