Lincoln Center, New York City, USA
Gather
A series of monuments and rituals at Lincoln Center by
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
From alonglastname.com:
From May 14–July 2, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s participatory installations reclaimed the outdoor spaces of Lincoln Center, filling the campus with color, light, dimension, and heart. Facing the tremendous loss of life and social isolation of COVID-19, alarming coverage of geopolitical conflict, and generational harm wrought by systemic racism, hate crimes, and climate change, many of us are tapped out. More now than ever, art can remind us of our humanity, heal wounds, and bridge divides. Grounded in healing rituals from her Southeast Asian heritage, Phingbodhipakkiya invokes emotions of grief, hope, catharsis, joy, and connection in four moving installations. Visitors were invited to reclaim space, foster belonging, and express their truth—finding a path forward.
Video from Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Islands in the Sea
Amanda designed nine sculptures for this installation, each based on a different form of grief. Again, I took her sketches into CAD to refine the size and form. These armatures were sent to fabrication, and were “dressed” in Amanda’s studio.
Working out the final scale of the sculptures in CAD. Amanda decided on the middle dimensions, a 10% scale-down from the original size.
Threads of Joy
In bringing Amanda’s work to life, I helped translate her sketches into CAD files for accurate placement and scale. These files would then be sent to our fabrication partners, responsible for creating the underlying structures for each sculpture.
From sketch to installation:
I sketched and sewed these canopies for the Threads of Joy installation. Three total, each one had different color blocking decided by Amanda.
