Stay Awhile is a public type installation that looks to activate its context through poetics, urging visitors of Prospect Park to endulge in stillness by temporarily forgetting the rushed pace of urban life.

An interpretation of Mary Oliver’s poem, When I Am Among the Trees, this installation takes a key phrase of the poem and transforms it into a spacial cue. The object (made out of mostly wood) becomes an extension of its host, blending in with the branches of the trees it hangs on, but when the sun starts lowering its head, and the light aligns just so, with the transparent beads of its lettering, it comes alive. 
A fleeting moment of stillness, of warmth, of legibility is created in this moment, prompting those who witness it to slow down and enjoy it before it too fades away. An ephemeral and cyclical message that captures the melancholy of a tranquil park sunset, witnessed knowing that once the sun is gone, you must return to the chaos of life in the city.