Good news and a gamble...

The good folks curating the vacant library across the street from MoMA called to give formal approval for my gigantic proposal. "Reforesting Midtown" covers 165 ft of a building I'm not alone in remembering with fierce fondness. Childhood memories of visiting the orignial Pooh Bear collection by a friend named for this Christopher, architecture lectures and apparently even Origomi, whose patterns inspire much of my work, waited in this library before meeting me for the first time at MoMA.
The "Reforest" is to read as a trompe l'oeil of reflective trees flickering as the visitor passes, bike, taxi or au pied. A replacement forest of sorts for the missing books that the missing trees once gave us.
For this reason, I'm taking my chances on presenting it early summer instead of the sure thing 1/2 scale install offered me for this January. A decision that held me in a special gravity for several days. May the stars align to grant continued access to the good folks at Chashama.



In the meantime, this proposal to turn a gallery into and inverted garden, will continue to percolate.