Just south of downtown Fort Worth, where Lamar Street slips beneath the thunder of I-30, something extraordinary has taken flight \u2014 again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFlight,\u201d the LED sculpture by artist Dan Corson, is once again glowing brightly in the Hemphill-Lamar underpass, reanimating the corridor with movement, memory, and unmistakable Fort Worth flair. Thanks to the stewardship of Fort Worth Public Art and Arts Fort Worth, the iconic installation continues to serve as a luminous gateway between the city\u2019s urban core and the Near Southside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At a glance, it\u2019s a flock of birds mid-migration. Blink and you\u2019ll see the swoop of longhorns \u2014 each sculpted shape twelve feet long, icy white by day and electric with color by night. These aren\u2019t just abstract forms or aesthetic distractions. They\u2019re Corson\u2019s kinetic love letter to Fort Worth, a place where cowboys and pilots have long shared the sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow we see and experience artwork is sometimes as important as what we are seeing,\u201d Corson said in a statement on the Fort Worth Public Art website. \u00a0<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t your typical roadside art. Positioned to be seen in motion \u2014 specifically, from a moving vehicle \u2014 Corson\u2019s installation rewards those passing through with a moment of transformation. As you drive, the 43\u00a0\u201clonghorn-birds\u201d appear to lift, dive, and twist in a sequence that mirrors the rhythms of flight formations. Look closer, and you\u2019ll notice their neon-colored wings evoke the horns of Molly, Fort Worth\u2019s longtime longhorn mascot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sculpture spans two zones: on the downtown side, 28 forms are mounted on five painted steel beams \u2014 the tallest reaching 35 feet. On the Near Southside end, another 35 \u201clonghorn\/birds\u201d are suspended from the I-30 overpass, with some emerging from beneath the concrete as if caught mid-ascent. Each form is crafted from robust, translucent polyethylene and internally lit with LEDs programmed in 60 unique combinations of color and pattern. Some of those patterns nod to Texas bluebonnets, while others echo jet trails and migration maps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s intention in every inch. Corson \u2014 whose large-scale installations have appeared across the country \u2014 layered the piece with references that root it firmly in Cowtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just south of downtown Fort Worth, where Lamar Street slips beneath the thunder of I-30, something extraordinary has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1037,12043,7371,7372,9730,9300,5921,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-99709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-arts-and-culture","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-fwtx-staff","14":"tag-landmark","15":"tag-style","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-top-story","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931622578064877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}