Trunks, Kingfisher, Fronds

The palm theme continues into the lobby where a repeating pattern of Arecaceae trunks, inspired by her botanist father’s favorite palm and the Codina’s Cuban heritage, is wallpapered opposite the elevators. Fisher’s framed nature studies hang side by side with select concrete casts of individual frieze panels revealing the process from initial drawing to final artwork.


On the wall hang six works: three drawings and three concrete sculptures. Palm Trunk, Kingfisher, and Palm Frond, are graphite studies that were then sculpted by hand in clay, and cast in rubber molds to make the concrete sculptures. In the drawings, excerpts of text alluding to the significance of the chosen nature scenes appear throughout, as in the origin myth of “halcyon days” calligraphed into Kingfisher.


Fisher’s Terrazo floor continues into the elevator lobby, winding through the hallway. Across from theelevators is an installation of works on paper explaining the motifs in the artwork, next to individual cast concrete sculptures, installed atop Fisher’s digital print wallpaper of the carvings of Aracacea palm trunks.