Sounding Stones 1 2 3 4, General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, Federal Courthouse Plaza, New York City, 1995–96
Sounding Stones 1 2 3 4, General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, Federal Courthouse Plaza, New York City, 1995–96
on the edges of Chinatown
watching the plaza as people practiced tai chi in the morning.
Chinese scholars’ rocks
“Most served as vehicles for contemplation . . . Like landscape paintings, the rocks represented a microcosm of the universe on which the scholar could meditate within the confines of the studio.”1
Ying, my middle name, means precious stone
Turning a fountain inside out
turning one’s focus inside a work of art
imaginary landscapes shaped within the block.