The artist talks about her constellation of 12 sculptures suspended in the atrium. "So, then I was thinking about the relationship to skylights in the buildings in New York. When I was a kid, my dad used to come to New York. He bought clothes for the women’s department store in Nashville, Harvey’s. This was before he was married to my mom. He would come to Fashion Week, ’cause that’s when buyers bought everything. He was this country kid coming up here, and he would talk about flying into LaGuardia, seeing the tops of the buildings. And he talked about the skylights like they were these portals. As a kid I always thought that was really cool, because we didn’t have that where I grew up.So I was thinking about this project for LaGuardia, and they had wanted me to make a sculpture. And so I made this sculpture, which was basically salvaged skylights that were copied to create another matching half and made into these sort of gem shapes.
