meliorating:
I visited the “Imagining the Lowline” exhibit the other day, which turned out to be much smaller than I expected. It seems like a cool project and I can’t wait for it to be completed. Well, I guess I can, considering I don’t think it’s anywhere close to being done.
There were a lot of children screaming when I went in—something you would expect from a public playground, but not in an exhibit. I immediately thought that the next part of their project was to eliminate the children.
That is, until I walked up to one of the speakers and realized that the small children screaming each others’ names and hollering out of joy was part of the peaceful soundtrack of nature sounds. I guess no New York City nature experience is complete without them. (ha, “New York City nature.” The best oxymoron?)
Other than the odd choice of using children sounds in such a manner (which I have yet to figure out how they did it… I hope they didn’t just walk into a park with a tape recorder and followed kids around), there were only two pieces that really grabbed my attention (quite possibly because there were only two pieces to the exhibit): the map of Manhattan created through the suspended lights and the plants growing due to the installed technology absorbing sunlight and bringing it underground.
soo cool