9. Double Take on Roosevelt Island
Diana Cooper’s massive new mosiac on Roosevelt Island, titled Double Take, was inspired by her experience of traveling through the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, an artificial urban enviornment, and emerging into the natrual waterways and greenery of New Jersey. When she visited the location where her mural would be, on an MTA building across from the F train subway stop, she realized how similair the experience for riders arriving to Roosevelt Island would be to her own. The visuals in her mosaic take cues from the architecture of Roosevelt Island including the Roosevelt Island tram, the FDR Memorial, and the Queensboror Bridge, as well as the East River. In her abstract peice, she combines the organic shapes and colors of Roosevelt Islan’s trees and waterways with those of the built urban enviornemnt and transit system.
