Happy
A site specific installation commissioned for the Flatiron Plaza in New York.
This temporary installation carved a small urban space in New York that offered a warm embrace during the cold winter months. A series of softly shaped and richly colored screens draped down from an open frame to inscribe an intimate collective space that doubled as an analog filter from where to see the city in a different light. As both a figure and a place, it framed views of the surrounding neighborhood and shaped a venue for public events.
Softly swaying in the breeze, its amber overlaps and overlays were set to continuously interplay with light, inviting passerby to bask in its rich saturated glow and evoke what we all wish to be. Happy was set as a playful urban devise to make passerby stop, wonder, and most importantly, smile.
