Mill Avenue and Third Street

Catherine Widgery / Cambridge, MA

Massachusetts artist Catherine Widgery’s artwork Shadow Play recalls the lost desert trees and winds in digitally translated images on glass and canvas.

Screened into the overhead canopies, white-on-white, the subtle outlines of leaves and tree branches can barely be discerned, the contrasts shifting in relation to the movement of the sun.

Spanning the central area of each of the station’s platforms are the equally ethereal etched glass shapes of a mesquite tree. The images have been reduced into bitmap forms so that they appear flat like leaves blown off in a wind. At night, the glass shimmers with a subtly shifting palette, contributing to the ephemeral qualities of the piece.