It's hard to believe the Domino Sugar Factory will no longer be standing. When I first moved to the city, taking the JMZ had the best (and free) arial views of the skyline. And seeing the Domino Factory perched on the waterfront, had this prestigious essence of what Williamsburg stood for in its industrial prime. And walking through the gutted steel in search of the Sugar Goddess, the chills resonated through my bones of the great history this landmark embarked.
I've always had a knack for natural weathered and oxidized structures. There's this lack of control you have to sacrifice to time and nature to allow such a beautiful process to take place. And not to say that Kara Walker's installation is capable of perusing over. Walker also use this "nature as art" with her civilization of Sugar People, slowly dissolving from the sun, becoming absorbed into the factory....and who's to say the factory isn't absorbing into the land beneath it....was this part of Walker's whole vision in the first place? And beyond the workers, we see the Sugar Goddess watching over her fortress-to see the size in person is outstanding and breathtaking as the intoxicating smell of sugar all around you...soaked into every steel crevasse....
