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100+ Unique Bronze Statues Occupy the NYC Subway

If you've been to NYC within the last 10 decades or so, you may have seen this huge community art set up down in the NYC subway. In the Fourteenth Road and 8th Avenue station are over 100 little cast-bronze sculptures illustrating satirical lifestyle in NYC. When Otterness began the Life Underground set up returning in 2002, he probably could never have thought how well-known it would become. Of course, the perform took 10 years to finish and the specialist finished up creating four periods the perform he was initially requested to make. 

As he said : 
"I kept putting more and more work in. I put probably five times what they paid me to put in. Finally my wife stopped me..."
Life Subterranean is loaded with five unique personalities - blue-collar employees with construction caps and t-shirts, white-collar employees with business caps, radicals with no outfits and indicated caps, rich people with top caps and police. The specialist even involved a acquainted NYC urban myth (two terms, sewer alligator).

Though at first look, the little sculptures may seem just like comical figures, observe that many of them contact upon more further community problems such as class and money. You can discover more about the specialist in a new meeting ELEGRAN performed with the specialist where he speaks about his motivation, his innovative procedure and more.

Here's my favorite Q&A.
"Do you get a chance to interact with people at the installation you have put up?"
"The good thing is that most people in New York don't know what I look like. So its like child’s fantasy to be invisible. I often go to the 14th Street station. If I'm feeling depressed, I take a detour over to 14th Street, and there is always somebody doing something with the work there, and I look at that, and feel everything is OK, and think to myself, what’s my problem, and I get back on the subway and go."

Tom Otterness Bronze Sculptures












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