Jenifer Wightman
science+art
View - June 11, 2013 (installation)
VIEW - August 4, 2013
To see more images of the process, please visit my blog I'm writing for Randall's Island
Thanks to:
Anne Wilson - RIPA & NYC Parks
Lia Zaaloff - Bronx Museum
Sergio Bessa - Bronx Museum
Eric Peterson - RIPA field support
Debbie Unger - RIPA field support
Victoria O'Neill - RIPA ecology
David Zaccheo - design help
Jeff Sherman - design help
Custom Welding and Design
Patrick Mackin - woodwork
Nancy, Nate & Coburn
View - June 25, 2013 (12 days old)
Image of View, a 2-leg Corten steel and glass bench framing the microbiology of Randall's Island, NY and the Manhattan Skyline.
View - June 11, 2013 (installation)
View - June 15, 2013 (opening)
photo by Marc Gersh
View
Randall's Island, NY, NY, 2013
58"x36"x24"
Corten Steel, white maple, glass, silicone, Randall's Island mud & water, eggs, newspaper, chalk
View, is a public bench that frames both the human industry of the Manhattan skyline and the microbial industry of Randall’s Island Park’s Little Hell Gate Inlet salt marsh. The site will contain unique microbial populations that will make a site-specific painting. Bacteria are model systems studied by microbiologists and offer much insight into our own cellular operation. Additionally, because bacteria can divide every twenty minutes, they also provide an observable model system for us to contemplate how patterns of reproduction, consumption, and waste have feedback on the very ecosystem upon which the culture depends. In this pairing of the micro and the macro world, a viewer may rest and contemplate how microbial cultures synthesize and recycle life within a finite ecosystem.
Blog for this installation on Randall's Island
Other works with Mud
