Due to popular demand I am planning Giant Hands Over The Bridge - All Hands On Deck for next Saturday - August 8th at the Gothic Bridge in Central Park /  by Mirena Rhee

Due to popular demand I am planning Giant Hands Over The Bridge - All Hands On Deck for next Saturday, August 8th at the Gothic Bridge in Central Park.

Free and open to the public ! We will see which way the wind is blowing and will hang the Hands accordingly.

Giant Hands fluttering in the dusk

The Artist with the Hands

Photo credit - Olga Nikolic Litwin

Giant Hands Over The Bridge /  by Mirena Rhee

Giant Hands over the Gothic Bridge in Central Park, a public art installation, a part of the Giant Hands series of installations.


Created by NYC based contemporary artist Mirena Rhee.

Giant Hands Over The Bridge was a very dynamic work and has been in my head as an abstract form for several years. I had previously tried various “over the bridge” hangings of hands but at the time I had very few hands made.

Giant Hands Over The Bridge was shifting all day as the weather constantly changed, and the wind and the audience were my partners in the work.  I worked all day around the bridge shifting the hands from under the bridge to over the bridge.

Making these installations is very surprising and exciting in that they are only an idea up the moment the hands hit the pavement. The moment the hands hit the pavement - all kinds of things happen - the hands have their own mind. I bend to the will of the hands - I think of what is the most logical way and most natural way to work with them and the space and the place - in this instance - the Gothic Bridge in Central Park.

I have been eyeing the Gothic Bridge in Central Park for a while now, and had been stalking it digitally staring at my phone at the pictures I took of it and the area around it and thinking of when the moment will come to work with it.

Often times working with the ( park, police, fire department, security, general public ) authorities becomes part of the work. Big thanks to the NYPD and the Park Conservancy who allowed me to work and gave me a thumbs up. I work without obtaining permits beforehand because of the ephemeral nature of the work and the very shifting weather, my time and the city we live in.

I worked all day moving hands around so there was not a quiet moment and there were no before and after pictures - first I stuffed them all under the bridge - then I started pulling them out and hanging them over one by one - making decisions in the moment and based on the wind patterns.

Liberty City /  by Mirena Rhee

Happy Fourth of July, a tribute and a love for my country which is not my birth country but my home and my place which I love with all my heart -in fact America and I was a love at first sight. I know many Americans want to leave and there are many problems in our place but trust me on this one - liberty is hard to do and so many people died for it over the centuries and now we take our liberties for granted.

Guard your liberty with all you have got.

Download hi-res here https://bit.ly/StatueCity

The Life of a Great City - One New York - Giant Hands on Times Square /  by Mirena Rhee

#GiantHands on #timessquare in #NewYorkCity.

The city I love is pretty strange right now, and I have to admit for the past month I've had a little bit of PTSD and I have been working through it slowly. I'm a very sensitive person, one of those that takes absolutely everything from their environment but that's exactly how I work. I take everything from the environment and work with it, and we, collectively, create something new - my drawings, installations and performances, even things that I do completely on my own, are always part of a collective work, the people, the places and the energy that swirls around it.

Every performance I make, every installation in a public space becomes an ecosystem /  by Mirena Rhee

Every performance I make, every installation in a public space becomes an ecosystem with characters and flow. Often times the NYPD comes, the bomb squad comes especially if there is a large bag with strange things in it, the security people usually come to chat and often help, the events people, visitors, locals and performers we all join in the life of the city.

The #hands have become an artifact of (life in) #NewYorkCity, they were made in #Manhattan and dragged through streets, trains, subways, parks and squares.

#GiantHands for #OneNewYork on #timessquare

One New York - Performance and Installation with Giant Hands on Times Square in New York City created in May 2020 /  by Mirena Rhee

In the Hands is encoded our entire civilization. The first Art ever was a hand print on the wall of a cave. The Hands have also encoded the greatest of human art, as in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

Hands Crop Circle - Installation in Central Park /  by Mirena Rhee

Fresh Crop Circle discovered in Central Park!


Mysterious Hands Artifacts are behind the mystery, scientists argue either aliens or unknown ancient hand has a hand in it. UFO might be involved or someone from NYC with enough hands at hand, all in all 36.

The Hands Got Wet however..

The Hands Caught the Dew from the Park!

I know my life is crazy - spent the evening draping them around and drying the hands..

One New York /  by Mirena Rhee

#OneNewYork One New York is a series of installations and performances with Giant Hands by American Artist Mirena Rhee on Times Square in New York City during the Great Covid Pandemic.

In the hand is encoded our civilization, the first art ever was on a wall of a cave, a hand print.

#onenewyork
#Gianthands on @timessquarenyc
One of the most beautiful places on Earth, we are many different people and we live in peace even in the greatest of calamities.. #Art #NYC

The Greatest City in the World and its Heart still Beat. An unplagueing ritual and performance & installation with Giant Hands at Times Square in New York City. /  by Mirena Rhee

The Greatest City in the World and its Heart still Beat. An unplagueing ritual and performance & installation with Giant Hands at Times Square in New York City. We all agreed this city is as beautiful and even more than ever, and we'll be back soon.

#OneNewYork

Our entire civilization is encoded in the Hand.

A year and a half ago I had 12 hands, now I have 36. I feel like a multi-handed creature .. and now that i have a mask...

Central Park during Lockdown - Nature is my Solace and my Master and Teacher in Art /  by Mirena Rhee

I find great solace in nature where every twig and every leaf and every color has a purpose and beauty and art in it. The entire wealth of all civilization can't make a leaf from scratch.

Walking around Central Park in New York City during coronavirus lockdown and scouting locations for next series of Giant Hands Installations.. previously I had only 12 hands, now I have 36.