Times Square Valentine Heart
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Times Square (NYC), New York
February 2014
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The Match-Maker cosmically connects people on Valentine’s Day. Guided by their zodiac sign, visitors arrange themselves at twelve points around the heart-shaped sculpture. Peering through colorful, interwoven periscopes provide glimpses of each viewer’s four most ideal astrological mates, offering potential novel connections between lonely souls or settled lovers. The form of the sculpture is elusive, complex, symmetrical, and changes as viewers experience it from different vantage points. From certain positions it forms a perfect and iconic heart; from other perspectives it is tangled and perplexing.
Photography by Sean Hemmerle and Ka-man Tse (courtesy of Times Square Arts)
Photography by Sean Hemmerle and Ka-man Tse (courtesy of Times Square Arts)