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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, US, April 2, 2024 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Bronze Gate entitled \u201cMahalo Lenape\u201d Honors New York City\u2019s Original Inhabitants<\/p>\n \u201cMahalo Lenape\u201d by Kaimi Niemann was commissioned in 2017, installed on Nov. 18, 2023, and unveiled on Dec. 2023. The bronze gate may be viewed 24 hours daily outside 407 E. 75th St., New York City.<\/p>\n \u201cMahalo Lenape\u201d is an arched gate of asymmetrical leaves, bronze and glass slag rocks. Inspiration for the piece came from pondering the Lenape people, also known as the Delaware. They are original inhabitants of Manhattan, and they were driven from their lands in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Today, the people live in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Canada.<\/p>\n People on the street have called Niemann\u2019s gate \u201cpowerful, healing, and spiritually connected.\u201d It is also described as \u201ca masterpiece of survival and rapture that belongs in a temple or church.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI contacted the Delaware Tribe Cultural Director Curtis Zunigha and shared my project with him,\u201d Kaimi Niemann said. \u201cI told him I wanted to respect anything that may be sacred. He encouraged me to take a walk, and that the ancient spirits would build me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThrough my workflow process of walking prayer, meditation, yoga, rest, and nutrition, I was able to complete the project,\u201d Niemann said. \u201cI sat with it daily on my black folding chair, searching for the meaning. I feel this work is powerful!\u201d<\/p>\n Kaimi Niemann is a Hawaiian, Danish-American artist born in Utah. He is a self-trained sculptor and welded metal artist. From a young age, he created and worked on projects. Niemann currently resides in New England. He has studied, lived, and traveled in California, Virginia, Colorado, Italy, and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, art is moving meditation and communicating with the Universe,\u201d Niemann added.<\/p>\n Niemann\u2019s fans may view more of his work in private residences in The Hamptons and throughout California. For example, visit The Francis House of Calistoga, California, a new small luxury inn and hotel that displays his steel fenestration windows and doors.<\/p>\n To contact or two learn more information about Kaimi Niemann, please follow him on Instagram (@kaimistudios).<\/p>\n # # #<\/p>\n Contact:<\/p>\n Kaimi Niemann kaimi niemann
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