Tiffany & Co. The Landmark (New York)

The sculpture that sparked this piece was “Thalia, The Muse of Comedy and Pastoral Poetry” (while on loan to the Met from the Vatican Museum), though I was also deeply influenced by the study of black and white photographs of my mother, which showed how she looked when she was about 18 years old, after the Nazi Occupation and Greek Civil War. The resulting large head is now on display in The Landmark, the Tiffany’s building that is part jewelry store and part art museum, alongside works by Basquiat, Hirst, Tyrrell, Prince, Schnabel, Holzer, Rashid Johnson, and Sarah Sze. Cast in the iconic Tiffany blue color, she looks out on the business of contemporary New York City.