To keep the High Line vibrant and growing year-round, we need 50 friends like you to join as monthly members.
When you become a monthly member before Earth Day on April 22, you’ll receive our limited-edition water bottle!
Claudia Martínez Garay
America is also the land that surrounds you
Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, Peru) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Martínez Garay’s proposal comprises two feet carrying a ceramic bowl filled with corn and potatoes. From the skyscrapers above, only the food is visible; from the Spur, the two brown feet that carry the food appear. Martínez Garay’s proposal references Moche and Inca cultures, whose art is relegated to ethnographic museums, and the people who lived in what is now the Americas upon the arrival of the Spanish in the 1400s.
Support
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons, Jennifer Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller, J. Tomilson Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Donald R. Mullen, Jr., Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Doug Oliver, Mario J. Palumbo, Jr., Susan Scherr, Susan Viniar, and Anonymous.