New York City images
There is a spate of ultra-tall new buildings being built in Midtown along "Billionaires' Row"- 56th-57th st between 6th and 7th avenues. I've always been amazed by the cranes that help build these tall, thin luxury apartment buildings. The cranes just reach up, and up, impossibly high. I wanted to capture that feeling of endless height. While I have strong feelings about the optics of unrestrained wealth, the technical feat of simply building one of these buildings is really what this piece is about.
NYC has always been about "new, new, new- tear it down, build it up again and again". Like it or not, it's the gestalt of the city, It's the spirit of the city.
The "monster sized boy" making his way down the street comes from a sculpture at the entrance of Central Park at 59th st, Columbus Circle. The sculpture is called "The USS Maine Monument"- dedicated to the soldiers lost when that ship exploded in Havanah harbor in 1898 (the sculpture was dedicated in 1913). The small boy is just a small detail at the center of the large monument, but, for me, it captures the concept of "forever young, new, and bold" that was my idea for this piece.