Blomendaal

Artist: Udagawa, Masamichi

With: Moeslinger, Sigi, designer and Modular Design and Fabrication, fabricator and Urbahn Architects, station architect

Status: In Situ

Title: Blomendaal (sculpture)

Dates: 2010

Medium: Stainless steel 

Description: Hanging sculpture of linear flowers

Owner: Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, New York

Located 96th Street Subway Station, 1, 2, 3 lines

Remarks: Composed of 180 thin, polished steel sculptures resembling abstracted flowers linked together in rows and suspended from the ceiling, this work has a kinetic component and sways in the breeze and air currents that circulate through the subway station. The title is a Dutch word meaning “vale of flowers,” which was also the original name given by Dutch settlers to the neighborhood around 96th street and Broadway.

References: Bloodworth, Sandra and William Ayres, New York’s underground Art Museum: MTA Arts & Design, New York: Monacelli Press, 2014, 68.