“Nellie Bly saw what was central to her society and knew that things needed to change. She understood that representation and humanity matter.”
“I wanted to create public art that shows humanity in a space that is welcoming to everyone,” says sculptor Amanda Matthews, “and that fosters connection and conversation while at the same time expressing my vision of what Nellie dedicated her life to.”
In 1887, having moved to New York City, where she was turned away by numerous newspaper editors, she found the offices of, owned by Joseph Pulitzer, and promptly talked her way into an undercover assignment that led to her feigning “madness” in order to investigate what was happening to women at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell Island, now Roosevelt Island. Her book,as a series, resulted in changes in asylum care.
A journalist, adventurer, and world traveler herself, Brown decided to follow Bly’s footsteps around the world and to write a book about it. The result wasBrown set off from London 125 years after Bly began her trip, traveling by air rather than boat and train as Bly had. She too wore a simple outfit and carried only a bag about the size of Bly’s.
A degree in fine arts and philosophy, her study of art and architecture in France, and her own experiences with gender discrimination all inform and inspire her work. “I want to explore our individual and shared history, and to change the anemic scholarship of art, especially public art, which has traditionally focused on men of achievement, power, and dominance,” she says.
Matthews’ moving Girl Puzzle monument is dedicated to women whose histories are absent in public art. In addition to honoring Bly, Matthews created four other faces in the monument representing Asian, Black, young, old, immigrant, and queer women, all modeled on women Matthews knows.
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