Armando Mariño’s artwork,The
Guardian Angel, installed at the newly re-opened LIRR Brentwood station is
inspired by historic and present day Brentwood. Fabricated by Tom Patti Design, or the waiting room is luminous with glass panels that capture the vibrancy of the
artist’s watercolor paintings and their brushstrokes. Richly colored flowers
from many of Brentwood’s residents’ country of origin are harmoniously
integrated,such as Mexican Dahlias, Peruvian qantu, or Salvadorean Flor de
Izote,as well as native flowers of Long Island. A guardian owl representing
Brentwood’s idyllic past protects the garden. At the Brentwood Historical
Society, Mariño discovered “The Legend of the Red Owl” by Charles A. Codman, and written around the same time as the founding of Brentwood as “contemporary Times”,a
utopian community. The allegory is about past and present co-existing
peacefully, in which an owl becomes the narrator’s guardian angel. The artwork
is an invitation by the artist to discover the beauty of life that needs to be
preserved… [flowers] always near back after a hard winter like a reminder that
there is always hope for a better future.”
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