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Cre<strong>at</strong>ive Time<br />
Art on the Plaza 5: Jim Hodges, Look and See<br />
New York, 2005<br />
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Cre<strong>at</strong>ive Time’s fifth installment of Art on the Plaza—a series of commissioned<br />
outdoor sculpture for The Ritz-Carlton in B<strong>at</strong>tery Park City—fe<strong>at</strong>ured Jim Hodges’s<br />
massive sculpture, Look and See. Comprised of nine tons of stainless steel,<br />
the sculpture was a curved S-shaped wall, which fe<strong>at</strong>ured a reflective surface,<br />
laser cut-outs, and a black and white camouflage p<strong>at</strong>tern.<br />
Hodges’s sculpture had the effect of transporting visitors on a sensual journey,<br />
as they were consumed by its warped refractive environment—it fused reflections of<br />
the viewers’ images with the opposing landscapes of skyscrapers and park, as well<br />
as raised questions about identity, artifice, and n<strong>at</strong>ure. Via the sculpture, Hodges<br />
furthered his explor<strong>at</strong>ion of camouflage as a basic p<strong>at</strong>tern of light and dark, one th<strong>at</strong><br />
conceals and alters our perception of visual objects.
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