The Ralph Ellison Memorial in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan

The Ralph Ellison Memorial at 150th and Riverside Drive is another hidden gem of Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood.

By the late great African American sculptor Elizabeth Catlett.

If you’re not looking closely for it, you may miss it — pure genius.

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

― Zeeshan Zaidi