40-foot by 4-foot painted relief sculpture hung on the Howard Beach/JFK Manhattan-bound subway platform beginning in 1992 until station renovations were done circa 2001. After it was removed, the artist donated it to the Channel View School for Research on Beach Channel Drive, where it was reinstalled on its exterior wall on Beach 100 Street in 2011.
Grillo's inspiration for the piece came from tales of ancient mariners who saw the huge manatee creatures of the sea and re-envisioned them as voluptuous mermaids. Grillo extended the visual metaphor into what she refers to as "mer-creatures." Source:
The Wave, January 6, 2012
