March 06, 2006

Wall of words installed at World Trade Center 7

Any progress at Ground Zero fills like cause for relief these days as the quibbling over rebuilding continues in multiple corners. The New York Times reports on some good news at the north edge of the site, where artist Jenny Holzer is installing her artwork at the 52-story rebuilt 7 World Trade Center building scheduled to open in May.

From the Times:

Already, thousands of moving, ghostly-white words of text have been programmed by Ms. Holzer evoking the history of New York; they will scroll across a glowing, 65-foot-wide, 14-foot-high wall in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center. Though the artwork resides in the lobby, it is already visible several blocks away. It is the ornament of the first skyscraper to have been built at ground zero, rising from the rubble of the first 7 World Trade Center.

The artwork — a continuing stream of poetry and prose written by dozens of different authors, from Elizabeth Bishop and Allen Ginsberg to Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman — will move along a screen made of acid-etched, diffused, translucent glass illuminated by whitish light.

March 6, 2006 10:42 AM in Downtown, Sightsology

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