This is one of two photocollages made by Nancy Holt in which she places black paper over photographs of locations in New York City, restricting the image so that it is viewed through a circle. The image depicts the East Village at the intersection of St. Mark’s Place (East 8th Street) and Second Avenue, a prominent corner in the neighborhood, showing St.

Locator (Cracked Window) was one of the earliest works Nancy Holt created in her Locator series. Positioned by a window in Holt’s New York Studio, a steel Locator captures a view of the cracked window on the slanted glass ceiling below. The crack forms a circle with radial slivers protruding outwards, a sun-like shape similar to those featured in Holt’s public artworks. The circular shape of the crack is accentuated by the circular framing of the Locator’s view, casting an aesthetic light onto an ordinarily unfavorable slice of city life.