Hugh Crawford "Passage: The Memory Palace"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
This event has ended.
A passage is many things. It is an architectural space, a movement from one place to another, a journey by air or by sea; the process of time elapsing; and, of course, it is a segment of a written work.
The public library is in transition. Once a repository for books, it is now a community center, a technological hub, and a portal for global research. Brooklyn has also seen great change in the past decades. There has been expansion and reinvention in many of the neighborhoods surrounding the Library.
For the passageway between the old library lobby and the new, I envision a photographic mural that will contain images of the library and Brooklyn, past and present. It will be a project regarding memory, books, libraries, Coney Island, Brooklyn, severe weather, the old and the new, the old future, the new future, Apollo and Laocoön; an opportunity to look back and forward at the same time.
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from December 13, 2012 to February 28, 2013