Through July 1st, the Public Art Fund and Forest City Ratner are presenting "Metrospective" in City Hall Park, celebrating both the renovation of the park, and ten years of exhibitions on the grounds of the Metrotech Center in downtown Brooklyn.

There are six pieces (all first displayed at Metrotech), two of which are shown here:

Main Image, and Fig. 1: Art Domantay's 15-foot long "Balsa Wood Airplane (The Land that Time Forgot)": This was fun to look at and pretend you were actually very small, or that you were lying on your belly and looking at it close up. The PAF quotes Mr. Domantay: "When we see something familiar and recognize the function it has in our everyday life, it then becomes forgotten because many times familiarity equals insensitivity…[my works] intentionally try to break that familiarity [and] walk that thin thread between make-believe and reality."

Fig. 2 and 3: Ken Landauer - "Untitled (Picnic Tables)". The Rube's experience of this piece is perfectly described on PAF's site:

From a distance, Picnic Tables appear to be like any two ordinary park picnic tables. Closer, they turn out to be super-sized versions of the original, faithfully rendered with appropriately sized nuts, bolts and long two-plank benches. Those that take a seat may find themselves recalling the long-forgotten childhood experience of clambering up unwieldy objects to sit with feet dangling off the ground. Their disarming scale is exaggerated by a disproportionate relationship between height and length, a trick of perspective that leaves one guessing almost until last minute.