I have "blogged" about Ann Carrington before (don't you just love the new verbs of the past decade? Still funny to think of myself using "blog", "to blog", "I blogged" in a sentence!) Anyway I'm heading to New York on the weekend with two of my girls, and am hoping to visit her "Manhattan Mettle" in the lobby of the W Hotel in Hoboken (another word I love using), as I am a huge admirer of Ann's work.
"Manhattan Mettle" is a magnetic mural, holding in place tens of thousands of objects, including dollars and dimes, New York subway tokens, spanners, saws, scissors and ship-building nails and chain. At 8m by 5m it's an incredible installation, reminiscent of the New York skyline in the 1930s (which makes me think of "Rules of Civility" again.) It's rather amazing to watch it being assembled, have a look here.
images provided by Ann Carrington
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