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In March, the Public Art Fund of New York City installed Desire Lines, a new commissioned work by the French Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé, which mixes sentiment and cartography. Desire Lines is at the southeast end of Central Park, in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, where it will sit for the summer. The structure comprises three steel racks, nearly twelve feet tall, that hold spools of rope in different colors; there are 212 spools in all, each with a length that corresponds to a specific path in the park. Trouvé mapped, named, and indexed every one of them, from the thoroughfares to the secluded, unnamed paths. From a distance, the installation resembles a giant sewing kit, or an electrician’s stock. Engravings on each spool suggest various acts of walking in the culture: “Woman Suffrage Parade, March 3, 1913” or “ ‘Walk on By,’ ” Dionne Warwick, 1964.” Visitors “can choose a path by name and then undertake the walk as it describes, tracing the march of history in collective memory while discovering Central Park anew.”

Beginning in the early 1980's, Ross has photographed children swimming, individuals visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., Congress members and United States soldiers about to be shipped off to the Persian Gulf War. Her most famous work, "Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools", started because of concerns for children's welfare as well as the welfare of the adults they would grow to be. This collection of photographs of students from 1992 to 1994 was published into a book in 2006, with an essay written by Jock Reynolds.