This public artwork is a sculpted, illuminated flock of twenty three translucent, suspended open books with bindings positioned as IF THEY are the wings of birds in flight. These books will appear to be taking off and flying above the plaza.

Phrases, taken from books by neighborhood authors or written about the surrounding communities, will be scattered and embedded in the plaza as if the words have fallen from the pages, forming an aesthetically beautiful and random pattern. The words will maintain their fonts from the books and will range from 1.5’’ to 3”.

At night the books will act as fluctuating lanterns light up by internal LED lights. The changing lights effects will be prompted by the unamplified beat and tempo in selected recordings of Jazz and other music played in the area over the last fifty years.

Fabrication and Durability:
Each unique book sculpture will be fabricated in durable, frosted white translucent polycarbonate. The books will be 1’x 2.5’. These sculptural elements will be suspended with brackets to stainless steel cables strung in an interconnecting web, to four traffic signal poles surrounding the plaza

Community:
Each book referenced by the words in the plaza will have particular significance to the site, the community and the local culture, for example: the Beat artists, Jazz musicians, Italian-American writers, Chinese-American Authors, Bohemian writers and Barbury Coast history, and Burlesque culture.