LAUREN HENKIN: THE PARK

While note exactly 2 sides to a story Lauren Henkin’s work The Park show the relationship between New Yorks central park and it surrounding environment and its interaction with people.

Central Park is the lungs of New York it allows the city and its inhabitants to breathe and I like how in this work Henkin has shown this – just a juxtaposition of parkland against urban. It much more considered than that it shows the soul of the park. it captures the fleeting solitude that the park gives, for the park is just that a “walled” urban park, not the Yorkshire Dales.

I have visited NY city on a few occasion and the soul of the park is unmistakable even at a tourist and that how this project was started by Henkin then completed as resident.

Henkin states

While the Park has been the subject of important bodies of work, my goal is to present it from a fresh perspective—not as a backdrop for human interaction, but as an active player; and to use photography to stop time, enabling us to see what we’re often-unconscious of without the help of the camera—scale, escape, folly, irony, juxtaposition, awkwardness and authenticity.

And can feel her intent the picture capture the unseen as well as illustrate the parts position and as such, I think this series will also assist in the planing for assignment 2.

References

Smithson, A. (2014). Lauren Henkin: The Park. [online] LENSCRATCH. Available at: http://lenscratch.com/2014/12/lauren-henkin-the-park/ [Accessed 20 Jun. 2018].