South Ferry Terminal has recently reopened after post-Sandy repairs, making the monumental art work by Doug and Mike Starn once again visible to the public!
“See it split, see it change” (2008), a multi-part installation with silhouetted trees evoking Battery Park above, a map of contemporary Manhattan with an overlay of old New York, and an giant leaf echoing the shape of the island of Manhattan, compares and contrasts the routes and lines of the transportation system with the veins and arteries of the natural world, conveying the passage of time and progress in a growing and changing city.
On the mezzanine level of the station, the aftermath of Sandy left a high water mark on the Starn brothers’ mosaic map that nearly coincided with the area of Lower Manhattan that flooded. At the artists’ request during conservation, a hint of that shadowy line was left behind as a faint reminder.