installed Battery Park, NYC, 2002
This artwork focuses on the great Hunger of 1845-52, when the population of Ireland decreased from 8million to 5 million. Part of the Ireland population flee the famine emigrating to America thhrough Ellis Island, a site visible from the upper portions of the Tolle's memorial. To symbolize the suffering, the loss and the flight by many to America, Tolle replicated a chunk of the Irish countryside on a half-acre site. The plants and shrubs that are incorporated into the artwork are native County Mayo. There's even a stone cottage like those inhabited by Irish farming families during the early 1800's.
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