It was the last day for Pulse Park at Madison Square Park today. I'd been trying to go see the installation for a couple weeks and was glad we made it today.
It goes like this- two hundred stage-like lights are positioned around the outside of the lawn facing in on the lawn. They are attached to a heart rate monitor that you grip at one end, which mimics your heartbeat in the flashing of the lights. When you let go of the grips, the first light to your left maintains your heartbeat, while the heartbeats of the previous two hundred people before you register in the rhythms of other lights. I jumped in place for two minutes while waiting in line and got a really strong pulse going.
It's pretty cool- like a poetic visual disco-symphony. They let you on the grass to walk around in the strobing, somewhat magical atmosphere. Pretty darn cool.
Yay for good public art! Sadly it was the last day, but all good things must come to an end. ...or at least that's what they say? I do have to say that there's something magical about the ephemeral. You appreciate it more, live in the moment since you can't take returning to that experience for granted.
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