With imagery of trees and maps in fused glass panels, Doug and Mike Starn transform a New York CIty Subway station into a meditation on impermanence and interconnection.
This past Thursday, the Municipal Arts Society of New York presented brothers Doug and Mike Starn with its Brendan Gill Award for their recently completed glass installation that adorns 250 feet of walls, or almost the entire interior of a Manhattan subway station. The work, entitled See it split, see it change (2005–2008), engages passengers entering or exiting the South Ferry Terminal station with images of a historic New York City map; turning leaves; and the intertwining, sinewy silhouettes of tree branches.
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