Water Movements – Lordy Rodriguez

This project at Titanic Park—at Fulton and Pearl streets—uses the language and pattern of cartography to make drawings of imaginary terrain. Rodriguez explores a body of water’s ever-changing relationship to its environment, inventing a river that snakes around frozen lakes with tributaries that look like capillaries over a variety of topographies. Without the context of symbols and text usually found on a map, it’s up to the viewer to interpret the familiar cartographic iconography for rivers, mountains, valleys and other land formations.

"Sometimes water is still and quiet like a frozen pond, and other times it's so ferocious whole towns can be swept away,” Rodriguez said. “Water is as influential to its environment as it is influenced by it.”

It Takes Time to Turn a Space Around – Amy Wilson

Artist Amy Wilson, in her signature style, has created for the West Thames Park construction fence an ensemble cast of child-like characters who inhabit what resembles a storybook world. Little girls in summer dresses work tirelessly in a vast garden, reconstructing the landscape using red toy wagons and oversized garden shears. Seven different panels along the fence depict the varying phases of their labors, suggesting deliberate yet seamless collaboration for the betterment of a beloved shared space. The artwork will be printed on a 150-foot vinyl banner and secured to a portion of the park's construction fencing. The project is presented by BravinLee programs, and installation will take place in mid-January. The park, located in Battery Park City, is undergoing renovation, and is scheduled to reopen spring 2010.