While standing on the station platform, looking up from the street, or gazing from a moving subway car, travelers and commuters can see 24 sparkling and detailed, waterjet-cut, etched stainless steel artwork panels. Inspired by the buildings and homes of the Ozone Park/South Richmond Hill neighborhoods, Linda Ganjian created the detailed designs of "Home Sweet Home," taking the visual vocabulary of lace and applying it to the architecture found in the area. The artist studied the forms, patterns, and textures that make of the area's identical-seeming houses unique. She captures with embroidery-like precision the diagonally oriented aluminum siding, baroque ironwork on fences, zig-zag tiles, elephant garden statues, and more. These overlooked decorative details are not entirely unique to this neighborhood, but form the notion of home in our subconscious, defining the way we experience the city and place. "Home Sweet Home" honors the builders and craftsmen behind the urban architecture as much as the residents who enliven and take pride in it. 

Linda Ganjian is a New York-based artist who works in a variety of materials, from clay to cement to paper. She is of Armenian descent; her parents are immigrants from Istanbul, Turkey. Her main pursuit has involved making large “table-top” sculptures made up of hundreds of miniature forms, which reinterpret Middle Eastern and American craft traditions such as carpets, quilts, and calligraphy. Much of her work presents memories and impressions of the urban landscape, the specific history of a site, or more personal narratives. Her work has been exhibited in New York and abroad, including at the National Academy of Design; Socrates Sculpture Park; Queens Museum; and Stedelijk museum de Lakenhal in Leiden, Holland. She received her B.A. from Bard College in 1992 and her MFA from CUNY Hunter College in 1998.