Jun 8, 2017
Celebrating our oceans today! At the Beach 44 Street station (A train) in Far Rockaway, Queens, artist Jill Parisi created over-sized imaginary sea creatures inspired by the nearby marine anomaly where the Gulf Stream currents carry various tropical fish to the region. Parisi titled the work “Coom Barrooom” (2011) after a passage from William Carlos Williams’ poem, “Spring and All”, which contains playful lines like ‘coom barrooom-‘, mimicking the sound of crashing waves.