To coincide with Valentines Day, Pernilla Ohrstedt Studios installation, Love Ever After, was on view in Times Square. On March 4, just one month after its debut, the art piece will be dismantled, placed around the New York City shoreline, and used as oyster reef cages as part of Billion Oyster Projects effort to restore one billion oysters to New York Harbor within the next decade. The installation design was chosen by Times Square Arts in partnership with The World Around. (Naho Kubota)Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio, a New York Citybased architecture and design firm, was chosen by Times Square Arts in partnership with The World Around for its 17th iteration of the Love & Design Competition.Love Ever After, is constructed of 40 metal mesh cages. The inside of each of the cages are painted with sea-safe paint to form a 3D heart. As one walks around the sculpture, the heart flickers as the colors and size change from each angle. The vibrant colors of the heart recall the bright billboards and marquee lights of Times Square, but the installation stands out in its simplicity. In an interview with AN, Pernilla Ohrstedt explained, Love Ever After is about, creating beauty with minimal means.Sitting in Times Square, the installation works in concert with the brightness of the billboards but is strikingly minimal. (Naho Kubota)Love Ever After has life after its installation in New York Citys beating heart. The mesh cages used in the assembly of Love Ever After will be disassembled and used as oyster gabions. The mesh metal gabions used in Love Ever After will be used by Billion Oyster Project to restore oyster reefs to New York City shorelines. (Courtesy Billion Oyster Project)Pernilla Ohrstedt studio worked with Billion Oyster Project for the design of Love Ever After. Billion Oyster Project is a nonprofit organization hoping to repopulate New York City harbors with oysters to naturally filter the water. Pernilla Ohrstedt shared in an Instagram post: The project isnt complete until its actually in the waters of New York City, supporting and building these oyster reefs that are cleaning the waters.Once Love Ever After is taken apart on March 4 and the metal cages placed in the water, the organizations volunteers will monitor the gabions and ensure they are effectively building oyster reefs.