Last week, walking home from work, I looked up and spotted the silhouette of a man on one of the ledges of the Empire State Building. I did a double-take: It was really alarming! But I could see quickly that he wasn’t real. Had “he” always been there? Had I just never noticed this particular ardornment?
There were more the following day. Once I started looking for them, they seemed to be everywhere–standing atop buildings across the skyline, poised as if about to jump.
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Their dark figures are at once completely disturbing and magnificent–kind of stunning.
The exhibit is the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s latest show, Event Horizon, where thirty-one of Antony Gormley’s sculptures–life-size body forms–have been placed throughout the Flatiron district. They will be up through the summer.
(2nd and 3rd photos from here)
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