Octopus Gateway		Topiary - a Twenty Year Project
		Permanent Installation
		Location: Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, NY, 1993 Client: Parks & Recreation Department and 1% for Art Program, New York City Architects: Goldstone & Heinz Landscape Architect: Quinnell Rothschild Size: Eight figures, between 8' x 4' x 3' to 16' x 24' x 20' Materials: Duracoated aluminium frame, plant materials Budget: $190,000
This piece forms the entrance to the Brooklyn Zoo from the subway station. The series of aluminium-frame structures, which will take twenty years to fill with planted boxwood, deals with time, with the experience of children visiting the zoo while growing up, coming back to see it grow up with them, revisiting it with their children.
Garden Eels	The walkway has been redesigned to create two serpentine paths intertwining around the topiary. Two of the elements, the octopus and the snake eating the frog, span across the paths.
Layout of Pathway			Overview
Looking Up Under the Octopus
All Photos by Beckett Logan
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