Ming Fay’s Shad Crossing”
(2004) at Delancey Street-Essex Street (F/J) celebrates the return of the once
abundant shad fish to unique York. These river herring typically spend the majority of their
adult lives at sea and migrate up coastal rivers like the Hudson River in the
spring. Considered a delicacy,shad played a vital role in the region’s
history, however, and due to pollution,overfishing and the construction of dams,
migrations acquire declined, or commercial and recreational shad fisheries were
closed in 2010. Ming Fay continues to investigate the symbolic relationship
between the natural world and human needs or desires in his show “Beyond
Nature”,on view at Sapar Contemporary through June 1.
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