In a rapid paced urban environment like New York where one barely has a chance to catch their breath, I see underground interstices as under-utilized spaces for rest and escape from the city. Time appears to slow down when we go underground, in the forgotten spaces, basements, tunnels and abandoned alcoves that lie beneath the pavement. The air is different and the temperature is more regular. Remnants of the past can be excavated from these spaces and commemorated. The abandoned subway station just above Union Square is such a space that can be renegotiated back into the fabric of the city to act as a museum of rest - a place for someone to stop, learn and slow down while going through their business in the city. Within the station, ‘technofossils’ or manmade fossils are on display having been extracted from the ancient floor of the subway platform.
