BiPlanar Arrival
Commissioned by the City of Phoenix, Arizona
Site: Deer Valley Municipal Airport
A permanent mixed media installation, BiPlanar Arrival is a forced perspective of variable dimensions spanning the top half of an open two-story terminal. The project combines native Arizona copper slabs, aircraft cable with custom-designed turnbuckles, steel square tubing (as conduit), signal lights , and customized taxiway lights to provide functional downlighting for the people using the terminal. The work is a comment on the ascending and descending experiences associated with flying and the structural technology of aviation, contrasted with the natural environment that surrounds the Deer Valley area. The title is a play on words referencing the double-planed design of the overhead grid as well as historic double winged biplanes.