Home Sweet Home

2016 111th Street (A) New York City Transit

While standing on the station platform, looking up from the street, or gazing from a moving subway car, travelers and commuters can see 24 sparkling and detailed, waterjet-cut, etched stainless steel artwork panels. Inspired by the buildings and homes of the Ozone Park/South Richmond Hill neighborhoods, Linda Ganjian created the detailed designs of "Home Sweet Home," taking the visual vocabulary of lace and applying it to the architecture found in the area. The artist studied the forms, patterns, and textures that make of the area's identical-seeming houses unique. She captures with embroidery-like precision the diagonally oriented aluminum siding, baroque ironwork on fences, zig-zag tiles, elephant garden statues, and more. These overlooked decorative details are not entirely unique to this neighborhood, but form the notion of home in our subconscious, defining the way we experience the city and place. "Home Sweet Home" honors the builders and craftsmen behind the urban architecture as much as the residents who enliven and take pride in it.