For the Stewart Manor station, artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee created "Come Back Home," a series of 45 laminated glass panels. Inspired by and derived from a series of original watercolor paintings, the installation responds to the landscape of Stewart Manor and to the community that lives nearby. The works take their inspiration from the flora of nearby Garden City, extracting colors from the leaves as they go through the seasons. Lee used his signature painting style — incorporating fractal-like forms — to reference the seasonal plants found in Garden City. His paintings include the great variety of colors from these plants found throughout the year, with more vibrant greens seen in the spring and a kaleidoscopic array of yellows, reds, and greens and browns in autumn.  

Lee worked with glass fabricator Tom Patti Design to translate his paintings into their final form as laminated glass panels. The compositions of the glass panels, located in three shelter sheds on the station's platforms, initially appear as landscapes — possibly manicured gardens — but closer inspection reveals abstractions in color and shapes that echo the timeless cycles of seasons, of lives, and on a smaller and more relevant scale, the daily commute.  

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s practice is rooted in an investigation into the rituals we adopt in confronting childhood traumas, and he uses his personal experiences as vectors for a universal narrative on physical, spiritual, and emotional loss. He responds to objects or environments of his childhood obsessions and often uses repetition as a method of navigating the anxiety he developed from the immigration process — a pivotal point in his life when he felt he lost a part of his identity. 

His works have been included in significant national and international exhibitions at venues such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Wallach Gallery of Columbia University, the Studio Museum, the National YoungArts Foundation Gallery, and in solo presentations at the 2018 Armory Show and the 2018 India Art Fair.