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Parks Across NYC

Group Members: Ronald Orellana, Dennis Roy, Sebastiano Caracci, Ariel Kahen, Matthew Kearney

Our project is a collage of the most iconic parks in each of the five boroughs across NYC. The parks we included were Central Park, Prospect Park, Bronx Park, Corona Park, and Silver Lake Park. The format of our collage is shaped like NYC, with photos from each park in its borough with research added next to the designated region of the borough. My group included lines from Vincent Onyeche’s poem called City and Nature, which reflected all of these parks in different ways. These lines can be found on the outline of each borough. The research we included is just a general description of iconic sites in each park and its history, and we tied it to how the park reflects each borough’s values differently. The message we want people to take away is that parks still play a huge role in society by providing people with an escape from cities, but we also wanted to highlight how nature and parks express the values of communities in different boroughs.

How did completing your project help you explore the role of arts in the lives of New Yorkers and their communities?

This collage helped my group realize that art provides New Yorkers and communities with an opportunity to escape the chaos of the city. We also picked up on the idea that Nature can be seen as a form of art depending on the way it makes people feel while looking at it. The arts are valued by all New Yorkers in some way, whether that is through paintings, performances, architecture, sculptures, or nature. Art allows all people from different backgrounds to come together and to appreciate a form of self expression they may or may not understand.


Categories: Queens College / Seminar 1 / Szucs, Aniko

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