Curatorial Statement for the Installation: Take Me, Buy Me, Read Me
Below is the Curatorial Statement for the Installation: Take Me, Buy Me, Read Me part of "Commuting and Communing: Bringing the underground upstairs"
"It's a city of strangers, some come to work, some to play. A city of strangers, some come to stare, some to stay. And every day, some go away. ... And another hundred people just got off of the train. - Company, Stephen Sondheim.
The New York City Subway is an city unto itself with 24 train lines and 468 train stations serving more than 5.3 million people each weekday, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
The subways provide a unique environment that forces people to be together and to communicate - or avoid communicating - with one another.
With this display, we tried to elevate everyday objects we would normally bypass - subway fliers/handouts, magazines/newspapers, abandoned/forgotten items - and show how these items hint at that greater desire to reach out to another person, to say something, or to fulfill yourself."
Michelle Lee