Elusabeth Condon’s newly installed “Urban Idyll” (2018) at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N/W) embodies a textile “tree of life” pattern familiar to many cultures. For the 36 laminated glass panels fabricated by Tom Patti Design, Condon recombined sections from a variety of her paintings into new configurations to create an environment where time can “unfold in liquid pours of color, with birds, trees and flowers at various stages of flight, perch and bloom”. These elements turn and flow rhythmically across the sequence of the glass artwork, evoking the transitions of travel. The linear, elongated compositions are designed to scan right to left like a #croll, recording the passage of time through vivid color and with rhythmic echoes of musical notations and film frames, dear to Astoria’s cinematic history.
