Christy Hengst

Landings: Birds in the Park Christy Hengst

Landings: Birds in the Park is a traveling public art project started in 2008. Both event and exhibition, it involves the temporary installation of a flock of porcelain birds, which appear one day and are gone the next.  The birds have cobalt images and text silk-screened and fired onto them, investigating aspects of humanity, specifically around war and peace. The birds have landed in over sixty locations, including Central Park and the UN Headquarters in NY, many locations in Santa Fe, beaches along the coast of California, the National Mall in Washington D. C., Chartres Cathedral in France, the weapons development site of Peenemünde, Germany, and have migrated as far as the Galapagos Islands.