The runway itself is almost complete – you can drive across
the whole expanse and hardly feel the incline.
During my artist talk at Studio Henning Haupt (thanks again to Henning
for offering his space), Aviation Department Deputy Directory, Doug Webster, spoke about the inevitable
transition of the site and the form it will ultimately take as an ordinary, everyday
space. A highly orchestrated series of
transformative cuts, marks, pushes and pulls will turn what is now perceived as
an ordered yet chaotic site into a precisely constructed and fully integrated
plot of land – it will soon become entirely familiar.
I was thinking about some of this as I gathered new material
on the site and its periphery during my visit this May. As well, I traveled a
bit further down into the Everglades National Park to think a bit more about
the delicate ecosystem the airport is a part of. I found myself looking to the sky, and the
horizon – linking the birds in flight and the long, empty space of sky and
water to the expanse of the long, interrupted surface of the runway, and the
sameness of the blue above, in both spaces.
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