The Same Thing, Only Different

I was walking through the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station and realized that this artwork:

http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/starn-south-ferry-2.jpg

looks a lot like this:

http://botanicaphotographic.us/?p=775

Small world. According to this article: (and my apologies for handing you all these links)

http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20090115/see-it-split-see-it-change-and-see-it-all-for-the-price-of-a-subway-ticket

It’s by Doug and Mike Starn, photographer/artists from way back. They were commissioned to spruce up the walls when the South Ferry station in NYC was renovated a few years ago. Not for nothing, they were paid 1 million for their efforts.

From the above article: “A tree is a hierarchical form,” Doug Starn says, “but when silhouetted it becomes interconnected, the same as the transit system itself. That’s how we think of the city – interconnected, jumping from one place to the next.”

That’s some dern pretty talkin there, Dougie. I wish I could do that. Seriously.