2000 - 2010

Title: Infinite Orbits (Animation Installation at Fulton Street Station, NY)
Date Created: 2023
Medium: Animations
Duration: 00:02:00

Description

Installation consisting of 15 animations on 50 screens (varying in size from 31ft x 18ft to 40ft x 2.5ft) throughout the Fulton Street Transportation Hub.

Created by Manhattan-based digital mixed-media artist Carter Hodgkin, Infinite Orbits is a meditation . Filmed and transformed high-resolution footage of iconic New York skyline imagery morphs into psychedelic, algorithmic kaleidoscopes digitally developed using custom software.  New York Dreaming brings a sense of meditative wonder deriving from the sky-high perspective of the work’s source footage to commuters’ daily journeys.

For Spalter, New York is a city like no other, a combination of man-made and natural formations, perpetually evolving and reinventing itself–turning from one year to the next, constantly unfolding. Its citizens, similarly, are dreamers, driven to bring their visions to life. With a longstanding incorporation of transportation and the Modern Landscape in Spalter’s artistic process, Fulton Center is an apt backdrop for New York Dreaming.

Opened in time for the holiday season, Hodgkin’s mesmerizing animations can be seen for two minutes at the top of each hour at the Fulton Center complex and in the Dey Street pedestrian tunnel that connects to the R line and the World Trade Center PATH station. The work will be on view through February 2024.

The work is presented by MTA Arts & Design with technical support from Westfield Properties and ANC Sports

Unforseen Behaviors

Gravity is the main compositional element for this series of paintings. I alter the gravity behavior of particles to generate a sequence of falling lines and create an oscillating sense of movement. I paint thousands of overlapping tiny dots and fragile lines, “pulling out” and enhancing the underlying composition..

Vortex

In my Vortex series, I mined the concept of a vortex and the sense of being drawn into and out of control.

I was inspired by Leonardo’s Deluge drawings of cataclysmic storms and his spiraling forms.