Tuesday, October 18, 6-7 PM, sculptor Ellie Murphy will discuss bioGRAPHY, her site  specific installation  in the Lobby Gallery of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza.

"In June of 2005, I began to visit each of the 60
libraries of Brooklyn Public Library, starting with the DeKalb library,
closest to my home. I took with me my partner, Simon, and our
4-year-old son Malcolm Edgar Heathcote.

I continued to take Malcolm to
each of the Brooklyn libraries, checking out a book, which I read, and
recording our visit with a photograph of Malcolm. The resulting
sculpture, created from these borrowed materials, is meant to map the
personal experience of one individual in the context of the common
cultural community-fusing the stories we share with the ones that are
ours alone."