Arts for Transit and Urban Design

Dyckman Street

Wopo Holup

Flight, 1991

Ceramic relief on mezzanine walls

The artist created ceramic tile reliefs that reveal the grace of birds in flight. Wopo Holup is concerned with integrating artwork into the site and finds inspiration in nature, and says, "I like to think about how people will participate with the work, how they will move by, around, through, or over it. With this movement in mind I have made works using several sculptural elements linking areas of a site into a single concept. I looked at the station's existing tile frieze and continued the frieze as a relief tile band. The relief shows a flight of birds - gold when they fly through the gold band and white as they travel over the white tile of the stairwells. I thought of the birds as flying along with the people as both ascend the stairs to the train's elevated platform."