So at Prince Street Station in NYC, there are a ton of interesting little silloutted figures throughout the stations platforms.

It is a terrific piece by Janet Zweig entitled Carrying On.

“Spanning the entire length of the two platforms, it depicts 194 195 silhouetted people and the many things they carry as they walk along the street above the station. The figures are taken from photographs of New Yorkers in all their variety; each one is unique. The collection of figures as a whole conveys the wide range of New York’s distinctive population.

The figures are arranged as a 1200 foot narrative that contains smaller dramatic narratives within it. As the figures reach the intersection of Broadway and Prince Street, the ground line they walk on descends into the station via two staircases to an image of the very platform where the viewers of the frieze are standing.

To make the frieze, more than two thousand New Yorkers were photographed walking along the street carrying everything from a sofa to a cello to the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag; collecting the garbage to walking their dogs.”