Commissioned for the Art Park, FOAM is based on a series of homonymous paintings made by the artist. Using nearly 100,000 glass tiles, the mosaic mural reproduces the intricate mesh of foam with its particles forming bubbles and nodes. The work was made by following a series of steps: first, the artist took a photograph of soap foam through a microscope, then worked with a programmer to develop an algorithm which modulated the placement of the tiles and finally created a diagram for artisans to render the image into a mosaic. The resulting mural is composed of tiles that are placed irregularly, but cohere to form a recognizable image.  

  

Located on the vantage point of the park, FOAM acts as a backdrop connecting the large scale of the landscape to small details, inviting the viewer to find their own perspective between proximity and distance, blur and focus. Through a broad range of media, including painting, photography, textiles, calligraphy, and glass, Tauba Auerbach explores the dimensions of the microscopic and the macroscopic, often using fractals, helices, and meanders. As they explain, "I'm interested in the edges of where a system coheres and where it starts to fray and come apart."