Blueprint for a Landscape

2017 96th Street (Q) New York City Transit

Sarah Sze’s artwork at 96 St profoundly impacts the station, as her imagery is applied directly on over 4,300 unique porcelain wall tiles, spanning approximately 14,000 square feet. The designs feature familiar objects — sheets of paper, scaffolding, birds, trees, and foliage — caught up in a whirlwind velocity that picks up speed and intensity as the composition unfolds throughout the station with references to energy fields and wind patterns. Each entrance features a different shade of blue and a blueprint-style vector line design, a visual theme that is integrated with the architecture, creating one of the most dynamic stations in the MTA system.