ARTIST STATEMENT

When people talk about New York City, you can never forget the old historical buildings and tall skyscrapers. Our project, One New York, focuses on the architectural part of the Lower Manhattan. We planned out the shape of the route before hand, which was shape of “1”. Realizing the size and overwhelming feeling of the skyscrapers and aesthetic old antique buildings, we decided to make a psychogeographic map of our route mainly based with architectural designs. Since the skyscrapers are huge, we decided to make a big size sculpture to give the overwhelming feeling to the viewers. The buildings are drawn with pencils and with architectural drawing style. Since there were many pop up cards in Lower Manhattan, we made the drawing to be pop up. The “1” is made with cardboard and painted with simmer gray acrylic paint to show the dullness of the lower/ middle Manhattan and the bottom “_” part is made with plexi glass since there were many skyscrapers which are made with glass windows. Over the window, are fire exit staircase, a very iconic image of Soho houses. It is made out of metal wire to creat a realistic feeling of the stairs.