dear Montrose: (2025).

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An ode to the station I can't stop coming back to. Some trains are still adorned with the old-school R143 LCD screens. In the spirit of reinterpretive preservation, this mosaic art piece imbues the original tricolor ephemeral pixels with Montrose Avenue's unabashed dynamicism.

First, the screen was digitized into a 160x32 pixel grid with three representative integer values across. Then, high resolution images of the Montrose Avenue stop plaque were taken, and tiles of various colors were cropped out as individual cells (a total of 125); all counts were made to be multiples, squares, and cubes of 5, Montrose being the fifth station into Brooklyn when traveling eastbound. Finally, tiles were randomly drawn to fill the pixel grid with a corresponding hue. Here, buildings were made white, stars and the moon yellow/orange, and the backdrop a mix of all other colors. It is, after all, this "everything else" that our bodies and spirits fill, so the diversity of colors is apt. 125 versions of this random mosaic were generated and sequenced in the video you see.

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