Seventy Flights in Ninety Minutes, Phoenix

Artist Bryon Darby (American, born 1979)

Date2009; printed 2012

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 33 × 57 3/4 inches (83.82 × 146.69 cm)
Sheet: 37 × 61 3/4 inches (93.98 × 156.85 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.43.4

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in pencil.

InscribedOn sheet recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "2009"; On sheet recto, center, in pencil: " "Seventy Flights in Ninety Minutes, Phoenix"; On sheet recto, lower left corner, in pencil: "6/25"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 6/25

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DescriptionImage of seventy airplanes descending in a mostly linear path towards a city's center. The sky is cloudy with strips of blue peaking through.
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In this digitally composed image, Bryon Darby makes visible the frequency of air traffic along a flight path. For 90 minutes, Darby stood atop the elevated vantage point of Hayden Butte in Tempe, Arizona, and recorded every plane that flew overhead. He then stitched the images together to create a scene that compresses all seventy of the flights into a single composition. Derived from actual events, Darby’s scene suggests a highly unusual scenario that taps into fears of midair collisions or aerial attacks.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

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