We Can Fly
Installation at Green Space Gallery, a partnership between the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and T.F. Green International Airport
Media: archival digital prints on reposition-able wall fabric
Dimensions: heights ranging 4.5’ - 6’
Exhibited September 2021- January 2022,
installed shortly after COVID travel restrictions started opening up
Artist Statement:
I’ve been thinking about the exhilaration of travel, kids playing airplane, and how the world first opens up to us through visceral imaginary play…
Even as our current stories of travel are encumbered–by closed borders, a relentless virus, and volatile global politics–I hope that these micro-murals will call up the curiosity, bravery, and spirit of imagination from which flight is born.
So open your arms and feel the wind on your face as you sprint towards baggage claim. Wishing you good health and a memorable journey.
Airplane Kids
Original, mixed media illustrations created for large-scale reproduction
We Can Fly
Character murals on exhibition in the Atrium Gallery at T. F. Green International Airport
Installation photos: Erin X. Smithers
This project was made possible by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Green Space Gallery is a partnership between the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and T. F. Green International Airport.
Additional support was provided by the Wilbury Theatre Group.