This is just the poster, imagine it in Skylight One Hanson!

Check us in the New York Times’ Arts Section, “In Brooklyn, a Boschscape of Vows, Song and Flesh.”

We do our share of weddings at Skylight One Hanson, but not SURPRISE weddings and vow renewals as part of an art installation meant to evoke human emotion, the human condition, and the human body as artist/choreographer/director walks amongst the seemingly sleeping, winged, costumed forms, and “brings them to live.”  First they perform repetitive movements, but Ms. Small soon orchestrates chanting, bringing them together into a full operatic performance.

Part of the performance, and the godly power of Sarah Small included some surprise weddings.  Cued to climb up on the magnificent tableau, couples were married by Ms. Small, who is also an officiant.  Our neighbor and an art lover, CJ Follini, participated in a renewal of his vows against the backdrop of this spectacular humanscape.  Another couple arrived into the scene of reclining nudes, fat, tattooed, skinny, costumed.  The man produced a ring, and Ms. Small spoke quietly to them as the singers’ voices resounded thrillingly. They kissed, and the woman cried as the crowd gestured to them. A real marriage, it turned out, had taken place, and the emotion felt oddly appropriate in the midst of the sea of humanity all around.

“Delirium Constructions” was, according to program notes, inspired by Ms. Small’s visit to the French and Italian painting galleries in the Louvre. “I became enchanted by the dramatically disparate groupings of characters and emotions,” she writes. “I imagined what it would be like if the frames melted away.”

We love that Skylight One Hanson can play host to such monumental artistic endeavors, and congratulate another series of couples who are lucky enough to be married in our magnificent landmark.  Mazel Tov!