CLEVELAND, Ohio – The newest addition to the ongoing Red Line rapid transit public art blitz creates the illusion that a small and diverse army of anonymous Clevelanders is holding up the roof of the station platform at Tower City Center.

To create the work, Cleveland photographer Peter Larson set up a photo booth at the station last month and asked transit riders to volunteer to be photographed with their arms straight overhead and their palms pressing upward as if they were carrying a huge imaginary load.

Larson then had the enlarged black-and-white photographs printed on sheets of vinyl so they could be stuck to the station's white ceramic tile columns in a process that involves pressure, and heat from a torch.

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