NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK HALOS for NYC, BATTERY PARK CITY MICHAEL MERCIL ARTWORK HALOS for NYC uses beams of sunlight reflected off of three computer controlled heliostats (large mirrors) mounted atop the Verdesian residential tower in Battery Park City to reveal a play of words painted on the pavement below. Inspired, in part, by “The Sundown Poem” of Walt Whitman, HALOS tracks the daily movement of sun and shadow across lower Manhattan to slowly unscramble six, three-word phrases: WATCH & SEE; SELF & SUN; LEAP & SHOUT; TABLE & BOOK; KISS & TELL; OVER & OUT. The painted words come from a variety of sources. TABLE & BOOK, for example, is inscribed on a 19th Century Shaker "gift drawing," but the phrase might also suggest the nearby Poets House, the soon to open New York Public Library branch, or, perhaps, the contents of an ordinary city apartment. WATCH & SEE is another Shaker inscription that may evoke a quest for spiritual enlightenment, or delight in witnessing the process of the on-site construction. Located on Murray Street at the intersection to River Terrace, HALOS begins in June 2009 and will continue for approximately five months.