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Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005)
Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue 13-panel faceted glass mosaic depicting animals of the Bronx Zoo.
"My work is an organic response to the interwoven relation between man
and nature. Walking around East Tremont I noticed the train tracks
snaking past the Bronx Zoo. The immense green space of the Zoo with
all its animals is what caught my eye. Coming from a strong background
in art and animal sciences, I considered it as a twist of fate. I went
back to my old sketchbooks filled with a variety of animals in all
kinds of shapes and poses. It is what provided the starting point for
this project.
Since I was a child, whenever I lived within reach of a zoo, I would
always end up there. It was a kind of sanctuary for me in the urban
jungle. I decided to bring this idea of an oasis up onto the station
platform and transform the environment completely.
Gone were the monochrome colors of the surrounding neighborhood,
replaced by a fiesta of animals. Using the animals and abstraction of
shapes, I created a new world for the aboveground platform. Using the
organic qualities of the medium I chose to explore its properties,
pushing them beyond a simple 2-dimensional surface. I am interested in
the rhythmical nature of movement as it shapes colors creating a
kinetic movement that gives emotional depth and sculptural quality to
the otherwise flat medium. The love of form through sculpture and the
sensitivity to textures through printmaking lent sensitivity to the
form that allowed atmosphere to develop. The idea of chipping away at
the medium into facets sought the energy emanating from what I loved
about both primitive art and modern art simultaneously.
The final response is a voice of the natural rhythms found in nature
that reflect a deeper philosophy often bordering on subtle
paradoxes. Clean, simple statements reveal layers of existing thought
that run deep like a pool of poetic imagery. The idea of bridges marks
my work. Here, I am bridging community, global and interpersonal
bridges through a labyrinth of environments formed in glass and
touched by the nature of the sun. Working with glass and mosaic is
very liberating and is another way of working with art that can be as
expressive of the past as is of the future."--Naomi Campbell. Source: cuny.edu.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT White Plains Road Line
Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 1/24/2006
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
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Date: 5/20/2005
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Country: United States
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System: New York City Transit
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/20/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT White Plains Road Line
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Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/20/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
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Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/20/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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City: New York
System: New York City Transit
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/20/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/9/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/9/2005
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
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Date: 3/9/2005
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Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/9/2005
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/9/2005
Artwork: Animal Tracks, Naomi Campbell (2005).
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Location: 177th Street/East Tremont Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/9/2005
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