The fourth and final iteration of Wayfinding is a meditative installation of forty-eight sculptural signs placed throughout the grounds of Delaware Park and the Buffalo AKG campus. Through a combination of evocative and lyrical prose and archival images, the sculptures encourage moments of private reflection in public space.

Set within both the museum campus and the wider park, the work is meant to appear and disappear from view. There is no way to “see” the work all at once. There are only discrete experiences that add up to a larger whole, relying on the landscape and a viewer’s unique journey, the signs they notice, and the natural surroundings they observe. 

Each iteration grew around a central question. For this final installation, I added a billboard-sized prompt – How much of truth is coherence? – to the previous five questions that organized the project: How much of love is attention? How much of care is patience? How much of life is coping? How much of belief is encounter? How much of hope is forgetting?

Wayfinding first began at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2019–20), before traveling to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis (2021) and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles (2022–23).

Wayfinding has been acquired into the Buffalo AKG’s Public Art Collection. This temporary installation was presented by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in conjunction with Buffalo Olmstead Parks Conservancy, with approval from the City of Buffalo Department of Public Works and the Buffalo Arts Commission. 

Press

“5 new projects on tap for Buffalo AKG’s public art season,” by Tommy Gallagher, WGRZ, June 2024