Ready Mades, Archpoints
“The object is chosen because in some way it fits the shape, the conditions and the associations of the site. The giant tube has a shape like art that passes it, going up across the East River. The structure over Manhattan and Bronx echoes the shape of Croton Aqueduct and also ‘‘shields’’ the vanishing history, commemorating the million of devoted water pipes. In the case of the High Bridge, an object with lenses was important. Looking up the park from the south, one casts the eyes a long distance in an area surprisingly empty in the midst of city congestion. The dew drops are like a mirror of the huge, free glance, returning it like a tennis ball[…]One Sunday I visited with a friend High Bridge Park. I was fascinated by the water tower: it’s extremely erotic, and culminates in one gigantic shaft, composed of writhing figures of men and women fighting, kissing, twisting”
(paraphrase from Claes Oldenberg, Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965-69)