Seed

June 1, 2024

There’s a sculpture up in Inwood Hill Park near the Tulip Tree Boulder. It’s part of artist Rose B. Simpson‘s two-park installation, the other Park being Madison Square (not Garden).

“While I am there with my work, I have the opportunity to guide through reminders. Maybe my work is about the displaced Indigenous residents who had thousands of years communing with that ground—a heuristic relationship that shaped their culture. Maybe it’s about the act of being in that space, gendered. Maybe it’s about the feeling of communing in a public space, about safety, about the feeling of anonymity that comes from an immense crowd, the clench of protective identity and the need to exhale.”

~Rose B. Simpson