Migration

2018 Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) (B, C) New York City Transit

As part of the 2018 station improvements, artist Chris Wynter extended his glass mosaic artwork, Migration, at Cathedral Parkway-110 St Station. Located near Frederick Douglass Circle, a gateway to Harlem, the artwork was originally installed in 1999 by Miotto Mosaic Art Studios, and it continues to evoke the spirit of migration, both of people who have found their home in Harlem, as well as the universal search for the feeling of home--in one’s heart and in the world. Imagery in the artwork includes houses atop stilts and wheels, ladders, the North Star, footprints, recurring circular patterns (both complete and incomplete), and African symbols of spiritual centering. These objects and a continuous pathway weave in and out of large simple shapes throughout the station, threading through the shifting dynamics of passage.