Documented artwork / integrated transit tile and light installation

Signal

Mel Chin

Credit as documented: Mel Chin with Peter Jemison and the Six Nations

Signal is a station-wide installation by Mel Chin developed with Seneca artist Peter Jemison and the Six Nations. At New York’s Broadway-Lafayette/Bleecker Street station, blue-and-white tile motifs expand from simple platform accents to more elaborate patterns on upper levels. Jemison prepared the upper pattern on behalf of the Six Nations, connecting the station to Indigenous routes and cultural history. Five conical fixtures wrap around structural columns like campfires. Their light brightens as trains approach and dims as they depart, combining interpretation with a traveler’s signal. MTA explains that the steel elements and tile patterns draw within this history on tribal badges, cultural exchange, and messages of peace; the tile figures reach out toward one another across the station walls.

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