I explored the intersection of Wallace Street and West 32nd Street. I found the sunken gardens between the sidewalk and the buildings’ compelling. In my collage I captured how the sidewalk folds around the houses. Beginning as linear paths to walk along next to the houses, they then fold down along the sides to the paved bottoms of sunken level gardens and patios, and they wrap around the house, with the paved allies. In my collage, I used sidewalk images at changing perspectives to capture this, and suspended them on the page to be the ground plane. I pushed the vegetation down to create the sunken garden. The house sits far away exaggerating the size of the garden. The collage model expands on this exaggeration. String represents the garden, and clear plastic represents the man-made structures (house, and sidewalk). The sidewalk wraps around the central house and rotates as it descends to the base, or bottom of the garden. The thread garden fills in spaces between levels and can be seen through the plastic (sidewalk).
Hathaway Section - Spring 2020 