After the Climate March, onto the new High Line!
On Sunday afternoon, after we’ve taken to the streets to demand the world we know is within our reach — a world with an economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities — let’s take a walk onto that shining example of how things might work: the High Line.
The newest, northernmost section opens Sunday afternoon, conveniently located right next to the endzone of the People’s Climate March. More here (thanks to an unlikely source, the Wall Street Journal…):
Over the summer, the High Line at the Rail Yards—a stretch of the elevated park between 30th and 34th streets that also opens to the public for the first time Sunday—played host to the Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas and a team of collaborators who liked to get their hands dirty. The results of their work are 13 stylized cubes that look like they were dug up from the ground.
“This is the basics of life on earth,” Mr. Rojas said during the installation of the sculptures, which weigh around two tons each. “Inside you have all these tiny things that are happening, going back to billions of years ago when the first primitive organisms appeared. This is it. This is the primordial soup.”
Cecilia Alemani, the curator of High Line Art, offered a different interpretation: “Half of them look like chocolate, no?”
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