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Mary Temple’s “West Wall, East Light, Morning” (2011) at Neck Road (Q) creates a soft canopy of light and shadow subtly imprinted on the station walls in hand painted ceramic mosaic. The slow reveal of trees bathed in perpetual morning light is intended to be discovered over time, on repeated viewing and at different times of day. Catch more of Temple’s trompe l’oeil light installations in “Double Sun” on the archway of Williamsburg’s McCarren Park Pool, on #NationalSwimmingPoolDay! Double Sun, a project commissioned by Department of Cultural Affairs' Percent for Art Program and the Department of Parks & Recreation, was honored with a Public Design Commission Excellence in Design Award for outstanding public art.  

Looking for the light now that Daylight Savings Time has kicked in? Mary Temple’s mosaic artwork at the Neck Road station (Q) subtly maintains the morning light and shadows flooding the subway tile. Temple’s work will shift your perception with shards of light and silhouetted foliage illuminating the wall at all hours of the day and night. On closer inspection you discover that the tiles are hand-painted in ceramic glazes. As the artist reminds us, Henry David Thoreau said: "Vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning".