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Glove Cycle
Permanent Installation |
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| Bronze Gloves on Escalator |
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Porter Square Subway Station, Cambridge, MA, 1984 |
| Client: | Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority |
| Material: | Cast bronze |
| Budget: | $30,000 |
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| The subway station is a daily ritual; a controlled pathway designed to move commuters through as efficiently as possible. On this path there are places where the commuter pauses; the escalator or the platform, for example. The positioning of the glove pieces is related to this pattern. The pattern allows for the creation of a narrative, starting from the token booth and ending at the train platform. |
| The separate glove events that occur throughout the station add up to a life cycle of the glove species, a whimsical metaphor for the journey of life to death. In their odd and yet familiar scenes, the gloves reflect undercurrent aspects of the human life around them. | 
Glove on Turnstiles |
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| Detail | Gloves on Escalator | Glove Pile |
Photos by Cymie Payne, Richard Howard, and Greg Heins |
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