Updated with his boyfriends’ name, the graffiti/street/public/contemporary artist Eric Reiger is re-booting his successful installation on the New Jersey shore for the Wooden Walls Project. You may recall our 2019 article Windswept Public Art at the Beach when the artist first took on this soaring project stirred by ocean breezes and thusly brought alive for hundreds or thousands who walk beneath it in this historic town.
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With the debut of “Aaron,” we learn that the new design is an allusion to the isolation many felt during the darkest times of Covid-19 in the last year or so. “If you look closely at this installation, you will notice fluorescent pink squares spaced out 6 feet from each other,” he says. “At the top, they remain apart, but as the threads reach the bottom, the wind will sometimes allow them to touch.” Our reunions, tentative and unsure, may be alluded to by that overlapping, that distance, that connection he refers to. Alone or together, art fans will again become mesmerized and delighted by Hot Tea’s installation here outside/inside.
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HOTTEA “Aaron” will remain on view at the Asbury Park Boardwalk for the duration of the Summer.
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