‘Cloud Zombies’ At Hoboken Museum Until After Halloween

HOBOKEN, NJ — For more than a decade, Steve Vizena has been dazzling neighbors and passers-by every Halloween with his thought-provoking assemblages in his garden at the corner of 11th and Garden streets.

This Halloween season, the Hoboken Museum invited Vizena to create an exhibit that captures the spirit of his Hoboken displays. His response?

“Cloud Zombies.”

On display at the museum until Nov. 3, Vizena’s installation was inspired by his sensation of “dodging zombies” as he navigated through crowds of phone-mesmerized pedestrians on the streets of Hoboken and New York.

Learn more about this local exhibit.

Vizena said he worries about how the two-dimensional screens are affecting the way contemporary humans connect to the world, how we perceive our visual world and the reality we experience.

“The Halloween installations are meant to suggest ideas, not show a particular idea, but to stimulate you to have your own experience and your own ideas,” Vizena explains on a museum blog post. “It’s meant to engage your eye, with color and design, and seem plausible, with natural references, in a way that connects to something in your visual world.”

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