Better Together - Ithaca, NY
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The painted utility box named "Better Together" is located on E. Court Street at the NW corner with N Tioga Street in Ithaca, NY.
Waymark Code: WM14B4R
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2021
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In 2017, Ithaca's Community Arts Partnership continued the painted utility box program started in 2012. In her design, Shera D'Elia wished to express the concept of cooperation. By working together we can better save the planet and help each other. In a design that encompasses the four sides of the utility box, a group of women is depicted working together to support the earth.
According to the artist Shera D'Elia:
“My intention with this design is to take the energy from the recent women's march and the North Dakota water protectors and create a hopeful, empowering, beautiful image that expresses our responsibility to work together on behalf of the water, the earth, and each other.
The piece will be painted in my typical style, using bright, bold colors. The figures will be painted in different colors to express diversity. The concept sketch shows two sides of a box, with layered waves along the bottom and female figures rising out from the waves, while holding hands and circling below the earth which is above them. The top line of figures appear to be supporting the earth with their hands.” Link