A-Z Point of Interest

1999

A-Z Land Brands integrate Zittel’s structural theories with the human conception of terrain and territory. She defines terrain as neither furniture, architecture, nor environment, but any location the body may psychically or psychologically occupy. A-Z Point of Interest is a temporary public sculpture in New York City’s Central Park, which considers contemporary ideals of outdoor leisure and nature through the lens of “entertainment.” Two synthetic boulders placed at the Park’s southeast entrance offer visitors a recreational post: a stage for their meeting, a site for their leisure, and a break with the narrow verticality of the city. At once overtly artificial and harmonious with its surroundings, A-Z Point of Interest comments on Central Park as a human engineered natural environment.