Glory
By Vanessa Powers

A vinyl installation on the roll down gate of a former newsstand kiosk at Rego Park station, 63rd Drive. This space was made possible in partnership with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).

A portrayal of the untouchable core inside of us that cannot be conquered, traumatized, or commodified. This is symbolized by a Brocken Specter, an optical phenomenon naturally occurring at high altitudes which casts the shadow of an object or person onto clouds at a lower altitude, enveloped by a spherical rainbow. Also known by hikers as a “glory,” these rare spectacles can appear to be 100 feet tall. Every translucent insect in this painting can be found in nature such as the white satin moth, book lice, garden symphylan, and the rose leafhopper nymph.

About the Artist:

Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter whose work uses a visceral symbolic language to navigate her inner world and how it relates to our current cultural climate. Her surreal paintings explore themes including grief, vice, mortality, and resiliency. Powers is currently based in and from New York. 

For more info about Vanessa and her work, visit her website and Instagram.​