This installation commemorates the
75 th anniversary of the 19 th Amendment, which granted
women the right to vote. The text of the monumental amendment was applied to
the floor of the main waiting room in Grand Central Station, in eight-foot
letters (9,276 point type). The effect energized the cavernous feeling of the
waiting room, encouraging visitors to read part of the constitution, simply because
of its scale and context. A 20-foot propaganda tower served as a frame for
historical text, images of suffragists, and ephemera. Suffragist rallying songs
resonated from the top of the tower.
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