Canal St. Cross-Section

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Sculptor Alan Wolfson created this “core sample of a city street. As though you took a street, dug it up, and lifted it straight off the earth.” Roughly a two foot cube, this model reproduces in beautiful miniaturized detail everything from the air conditioning unit installed above the entrance to a pizza parlor to the interior of the pizza parlor itself to the subway station directly beneath it.

Canal St. Cross-Section

This sculpture will be on display in June in New York at the Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibition “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities” but you can see close-ups at the sculptor’s Web site.

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