Kaleidoscope

Artist’s Statement

The High Line is a place where wildness and memory emerge through cracks in steel and concrete. Butterflies flutter along its path, echoing the line's rebirth from industrial tracks to beautiful garden. Before the elevated path was constructed in the 1930s, “West Side Cowboys" rode on horseback through these streets, guiding locomotives and keeping the pedestrians safe.

The combination of nature and history is at the heart of this body of work. I was particularly struck by the contrast between the mechanical force of the trains, the rugged figures of the cowboys and the delicate, unexpected presence of butterflies-symbols of transformation and fragility.

The cowboys, once protecting people from the danger of the tracks, now serve as defenders of memory. The trains, once thunderous and dominant, are now silent rails guiding a new kind of journey. And the butterflies remind us that even in a city defined by power and progress, there is always room for change and the delicacy of flight.