Strawberry Fields

Strawberry Fields is a series of installations with Giant Hands created over the Labor Day Weekend 2020 in Central Park.

In response to the Lockdowns, in the Summer of 2020, I created a series of illegal installations in Central Park for the joy and entertainment of everyone

IT WAS THE SUMMER IT WAS THE LIGHT IT WAS THE MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE. THE AIR WAS FILLED WITH SO MUCH MUSIC YOU COULD BREATHE NOTES

Strawberry Fields Installations were inspired by Strawberry Fields in Central Park. The artist created installations for three days in a row, hanging the hands in the morning and taking them down in the evening. It continued in tune with the music that surrounded the artist in Central Park. There was music everywhere and the sounds of it inspired the artist to hang the hands over and over again and just let them flutter, sometimes.

The Story of Strawberry Fields Installations

I had such a blast working in Central Park over the Labor Day weekend, it is hard to come out of the fairy tale land of my hands forest and hands field and into the real world.

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 the park was filled with so much music it was impossible not to start dancing in your head

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

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 this place dejected when I saw a path and decided to toss the hands out of the bag.

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.