Thanks to all of you and you, New York, I am hands down convinced that the virus hasn’t taken the spirit of this great city. I found the people and the place so very exciting, it has made my life a great and beautiful adventure and coupled with my other life where i somehow ended up going to the tallest buildings and most beautiful newly built buildings in New York city. … i am still riding high on elation. Thank you, New York, for being so very awesome - i can’t imagine my life, my art life and my experience as a human on earth without you in it. Some people never get to experience the magnificence of New York city because of the malls - but now that we are out of the malls - we have each other and this amazing place.
I met so many people, critters, insects, squirrels. i had a conversation with a little girl whether what i do is decorating.
Hmmm. I had to think a while and I decided an answer - a decoration is a small addition, an improvement to a thing. Art is a thing by itself, it has transformed the thing into a new thing.
Saturday
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Saturday was such a strange day at the beginning I was at the bow Bridge in Central Park and the bow Bridge has not been lucky for me and my hands. then I met a photographer who was kind to me and I think turned things around.
Well I was at the bow bridge I played with the hands dropping them over the railing playing with shadow and reflection. But I was really confused, I felt like I'm working through molasses.
I had strewn some hands over at the lawn but they started blowing in the wind and I was afraid the sticks of the hands will hit somebody. It was basically like herding wild animals. Afterwards I told people that the hands grow like this in the wild and now it's just the season. I only herd them.
I was having a pretty disappointing day, I walked by Strawberry Fields and I saw a little pathway and decided to check it out and then I discovered this walkway which was sheltered from the wind.
It was like a forest path so decided to strew the Hands in there
All kinds of things happens to the hands in there. Bicycles Rode over them, dogs, people, critters, birds, squirrels
Everything happened really quickly and when things happen quickly there's very little hesitation so it all worked out in the end.
Someone run their BICYCLE Through the HANDS twice
Trust your feelings
Sunday
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The most amazing labor day weekend - I only now realized I had dressed like the strawberry fields, pictures by Brian Clark - I got it!. I dressed by accident, and made the installation by accident.
Was walking past dejected when I saw a path and decided to toss the hands out of the bag.
An Installation with Giant Hands at the Strawberry Fields in Central Park - New York City created by Mirena Rhee over the Labor Day weekend. Photos by Brian Clark.
Monday
On Monday I experimented with the pergola I have been eyeing for more than a year.. I had not come prepared and was a bit lazy and felt like just going with the music rather than focusing on the work. But the light was very beautiful and I will return to hang all 36.
Hands Field
