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Kitten Naps Again (by mat4226)
59th Street/Lexington Avenue-59th Street Station // 4, 5, 6, N, R, W subway trains
Elizabeth Murray: Blooming, 1996
Glass mosaicRiders at this station are treated to the joyous burst of color and shapes that is Blooming. The mosaics defy the corners of the space as the imagery wraps around corners, down steps, and through doorways.
Elizabeth Murray’s Blooming takes its title from Bloomingdale’s, located above the station upstairs. The artist views the subway as a “dreamy underworld” and also a place to wake up, and her pink trees, red shoes and yellow mugs with steaming coffee succeed in gaining the viewers’ attention. Murray says, “I added the stepping shoes and steaming coffee cups, part of the ritual of every morning or evening subway trip.” The images are intended to “stimulate thoughts about passage, as does the poetry” that is incorporated into the mural, lines from William Butler Yeats’s, “In dreams begin responsibility,” and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.”
The bottom two photos are of the space before the mosaic was installed. What a difference!
“Without a god, where does your morality come from?”
You know those parts of the bible that are completely ridiculous? The parts about stoning adulterers to death, and wearing mixed fibers and working on the sabbath and so on; the parts that you refuse to take seriously even though the book itself commands you must take all of it seriously?
Whatever part of your brain is responsible for working out that those parts of the bible are safe to ignore - that’s where an atheist’s morality comes from.Well put.
-FA
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