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Anyone strolling along Stuyvesant Street by the Barney Building on Sunday likely caught a glimpse of dramatic pink and purple material strewn along the building and the adjacent park.
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The decorations — a combination of sheets, tubes and cardboard — were part of a one-day exhibit called "Violet Jolt," organized for ConfluxCity — an annual festival for psychogeography (the study of urban landscapes). The headquarters for Conflux are located inside the Barney Building this year.
Some passersby gawked at the exhibit, not entirely sure what to make of it. Others pulled out their cameras and took pictures of the not-so-typical drapery. The only forms of identification for the piece were a few piles of postcards listing artist contact information for the exhibit.
Yvette Gellis, the artist behind the interactive piece, said she was "investigating the boundaries between painting, environment and installation." Gellis, originally from Los Angeles, recently returned from Nicaragua, where she said she was inspired by the Nicaraguans' use of colors in front of their homes to create a façade of the "overall feeling of a happy glow."
In creating this piece, Gellis said she was trying to pull spectators out of their typical routine so they could see their everyday world in a new way.
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