Another novelty is that the Rome Reborn 2.0 model mixes manually modeled monuments of the first stage of the project (Rome Reborn 1.0) with these procedural insulae and temple models.
Creating public art "is not the same as doing studio art," said Ms. Allison, 35, one of seven sculptors chosen for the inaugural year of Model to Monument.
The sculptors are part of the Art Students League of New York's Model to Monument (M2M) program, in conjunction with the New York City Parks Department.
The Model to Monument program is led by Greg Wyatt, the sculptor in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and creator of the Peace Fountain, a 1985 work on the cathedral grounds.
The MODEL TO MONUMENT program of the Art Students League of New York has created seven sculptures in Riverside Park South (59th Street to 70th Street) and one collaborative 12-foot steel sculpture at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
The engineer who issued the warning was one of the public-art experts she met through the Art Students League of New York's Model to Monument program, which has become the centerpiece of a five-year partnership between the League and the Parks Department to create public art for city parks.
"The result is a hybrid vision traversing model and monument, code, the corporeal, and the hyperreal".
In the short documentary, Model to Monument, Valentine expands on this, explaining that capturing three-dimensional forms in two dimensions via photography is integral to his bipartite practice.
Near certain monuments, the amount of detail in the procedural models actually had to be limited in order to keep the visual balance with those manually modeled monuments in check.
Museums and Galleries BRIDGEPORT The Barnum Museum "From Models to Monuments".
