Lynch’s ground pattern, which can be found in Virginia Park (between the Cross Bronx Expressway and Westchester Avenue in New York) does more the adorn the seating area. Her design takes its inspiration from parquet flooring, a mosaic style featuring geometrical and angular shapes. Parquetry is often found in the homes of the more well-off or in entertainment venues like basketball arenas, spaces with limited accessibility, spaces built around money that buttresses against unwanted outsiders. “By referencing patterns traditional found in the home, the mural will bridge the gap between origin and destination,” Lynch writes on her website. “It questions notions of possession of space, making this a place for everyone.” Initially, I worried that her artistic gesture, while well-intentioned, would reinforce the class distinctions between the spaces the art evoked and the surrounding Bronx neighborhood. I feared it suggested that Lynch was bringing “beauty” into an environment previously bereft of it. An overhead shot of the installation on her website, however, changed my perspective. The tiles, seen among a collection of trees, no longer glow with the translucence of stained glass windows. Instead, the colors look baked into the concrete, grounding them in the environment, embedding them into the neighborhoods historical geography. You can see stars and stripes rendered in rich blues, greens, and magentas, emblazoning the space with the familiar figures of Americana but with an alternative twist. The parquetry takes influence from other socioeconomic realms but is unique to the surrounding environment and its denizens, truly blurring the line between public and private decor.