Mock proposal for the Lexington Line, 77th Street Station - Lenox Hill Hospital Station, New York, NY
2007 The National Academy Abbey Mural Workshop
Proposed material: mosaic tiles on station platform walls
Total Budget: $300,000


The Rite of Passage pairs the ambulatory environment of a hospital and a subway station through the creation of a series of vignettes showing patients moving from one hospital room to another, through change of medical condition or procedure. Stripped of emotion and individual identity, every hospital patient, visitor and employee is depicted in an iconic form to emphasize that this artwork is not about the individual circumstances and outcomes within the hospital experience, but rather how our life, as a whole, unfolds uncertainly, as we are being ushered from one room to another.