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                   Abort Mission! Artopia- Georgetown, Seattle, WA June 2009

ARTOPIA is an art and music festival that is held annually in Georgetown- one of the southernmost neighborhoods in Seattle. I picked a space to work in and for two weeks leading up to the festival I was in there creating a helicopter from material that I found in and around the site.

The idea for the helicopter was born from a lithograph that I created the month before the festival while I was attending an artist residency at Anchor Graphics Studio at Columbia College in Chicago. The lithograph is of a CH-47 'Chinook' helicopter with a rainbow out of the front of it and bubbles shooting out of the rear.

I installed a bubble machine in the back of the helicopter and had it blowing bubbles during the entire event, which lasted one day. I couldn't figure out how to shoot a rainbow out of the front though. After the event was over I dismanteled it and put it back into the recycling bin.

Site-specific installation. Recycled Cardboard Helicopter 14' l x 3' w x 6' h