Fast Track and Speedwheels
Fast Track and Speedwheels
About the project
Daniel Sinclair's "Fast Track and Speedwheels" is an assemblage crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs, and wires. Installed within a long passageway between the subway and Grand Central Terminal, the pieces interpret the speed, energy, and train travel imagery into a series of relief sculptures. The Art Deco shapes and various turning wheels, spinning gears, and pistons add to the aura of the location, below one of America's premiere rail stations. "I want my sculpture to make people think of the power of the engines that drive the trains, the speed and efficiency of them," the artist says. "The sculptures also reflect the architectural elements of Times Square and the Art Deco glamour of Radio City Music Hall."
About the artist
Daniel Sinclair is an internationally celebrated sculptor who continues to follow the techniques passed down to him in the 1970s while he apprenticed for five years in the studio of Pasquino Pasquini in Pietrasanta, Italy. Sinclair lives and works in New York City.