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Upon first glance when I walked up to Reina Kubota's "City of Light" at the DUMBO Arts Festival this weekend the sheer number and variety of bottles, cans, cartons, paper cups, and jars of all kinds was so overwhelming that I didn't immediately get it-- I was just stunned. Then a friend of mind yelled out,"Hey look-- there's Central Park! That's the Upper West Side! That's Columbia University!"
Boom. I suddenly realized that the entire island of Manhattan stood before me, represented in clever detail by the use of almost every possible product of mass consumption you can imagine (with bottles and glasses representing buildings being the dominant item).
I only wish I could have seen this lit up at night-- even during the relatively overcast hours of this past Saturday afternoon, I still stood by this piece in awe for about 20 minutes-- then walked away shaking my head wondering how so much trash made for such a beautiful model of the city I love.
Bravo, Reina Kubota. I don't say this too often: a masterpiece!
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art, bottles, cartons, City of Light, DUMBO, glasses, litter, Manhattan, Reina Kubota
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Posted on 9/29/2008
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