Last month the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport unveiled their newest work of public art, The Dreams We Carry, by Kipp Kobayashi for the G Concourse. We had the pleasure to work with Kipp on this incredible project that is inspired by the diverse and temporal nature of the airport community and how it is inclusive of travelers and airport staff as well as the people of the surrounding neighborhoods and cities. Through public outreach and in-person events Kipp asked the question: "You’re offered a one-way ticket wherever you’d like to go. Who knows when you’ll return? What three things would you take along?" The many responses are reimagined here into a cloud-like composition of floating suitcases and bags swirling in the center of the rotunda, carrying within them the pieces of the multiple narratives that tell the story of the airport.
Thank you to Art Project Partners (APP) for providing fabrication and installation services, the team at MSP, and of course Kipp Kobayashi.