Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

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The luminescent quality of the stone makes me wonder
if anything is projected on this face at night.

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The sculptor, Jaume Plensa, created the 44′ face as an homage to “everyday people.”
The artist’s website states that the dream-like monolith “aims to introduce a quietness
to the park, allowing viewers a moment of serenity and reflection in the heart of the
city that never sleeps.”

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I love that the face is constructed in levels, like brickwork.
It’s actually white fiberglass coated with a gel.

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Moving up town to Park Avenue and 57th Street. some roses
have been on display since the winter. These are large things
that, to me, aren’t very attractive.

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They’re sculptures by artist, Will Ryman, whose gallery
arranged for the Park Ave. display from Jan through May.

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Several street corners from 57th St. thru 67th St. have different roses.
Some that lay on their side, some that stand up.

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Down town, on 32nd Street and Park Avenue, there’s a big, stone statue
that is covered by a construction site’s scaffolding. You can only notice the
sculpture if you’re walking past it. Even then, you have to pay attention.

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I took these pictures when it was gray and raining out.
At least, the sculpture stayed dry.

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Just outside of Washingon Square Park there’s a mall of a street
filled with small shops and restaurants, LaGuardia Place. Among and
in front of theses shops is a statue of Fiorella LaGuardia, the mayor of
New York from 1934 to 1945. The statue is by sculptor Neil Estern.

LaGuardia was that he read the Hearst comic strips, “Puck, the comic weekly,”
on Sundays over the radio. An odd little fact that Chuck McCann told us in
his weekly Sunday kiddee show in NY during the 60′s.