Subterranean Muse

“It’s about the conveyance of something,” Mike Starn said. “We saw the subway system as a conveyance, where connections are made.”

“Tubes and things,” his brother added.

The Starns have been working on the decor and design of the South Ferry Station in Downtown Manhattan for quite some time. Their work, which caught the eye of the project planners, deals with connections and their visual representation. They mix natural imagery with these contemporary, man-made notions and engulf the viewer amidst these "tubes and things."

The branching of the imagery successfully depicts the purpose of the subway, with all travelers' departing from an identical idea, or trunk, and going their separate ways. It captures the individual while maintaining the sense of the whole.