Where We Land

Ali Motamedia

December 13th, 2025 — March 5, 2026

Collect Pond Park

A contribution to the 2025-2026 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) program: a series of community-based artistic interventions in public space

Where We Land is a large paper plane suspended over the park’s central pond garden, its surface covered with paintings and drawings made by NYC residents during participatory public art events organized by the Korea Art Forum (KAF). The work turns a familiar childhood object into a poetic symbol of migration, memory, and shared imagination.

Installation at Collect Pond Park

About Korea Art Forum (KAF)

Founded in New York City in 2013, KAF is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art. The organization supports artists' social engagement and enhances people’s quality of life and well-being. It produces commissions, presentations, forums, publications, and art workshops to bring people together to share dialogues, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

Thank You!

This project is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Panta Rhea Foundation, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Arts Engagement administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families. NYC Parks has been showing public art in city parks since 1967. For information on our temporary public art program please call (212) 360-8163. For general information, call 311 or visit nyc.gov/parks. Follow @nycparks on X, Facebook, and Instagram.