Last updated on November 20th, 2024
It isn’t often that I look forward to the hike between airport concourses. However, at O’Hare, the trip between Concourse B and C is enlivened by cheerful neon lighting that zips and zings above as you glide down the moving walkway.
The Sky’s the Limit is by Michael Hayden and Kristina Lucas. With 466 neon tubes it would be over a mile long if stretched out into a single line, it is claimed to be the largest neon sculpture in the world. The changing light is managed by three computers and, apparently, is supposed to include a musical accompaniment.
It was silent today, providing an unusually tranquil interlude between flights.
I would like to know where the information in this description was obtained from? First off: Kristina Lucas is a Sculptor in her own right (who has many installations of her suspended Sculptures – world wide); who I first met when I was lecturing at The Sculpture Department at UCLA! Kristi & I have been married for 44 years & have brought-up 5 (previous), children. However the auspices under which “SKYS THE LIMIT” was created was via my United States Corporate Persona “Thinking Lightly Inc.” … This fact is stated on the small plaque at the half-way portion of my Sculpture-in-LIGHT – where one must walk from the first “Travelator” as United Technologies calls them – to the next. (I called these Moving Walkways “SLIDEWALKS”). Plus: The original music I commissiond specifically for this Artwork is by the late Wm. Kraft (the former “Composer in Resistance” of the LA Philharmonic Orchestra. CDs of his creation are available on the internet + at most component Record Stores. Thank you for the very supportive Review!
The information I used was from and linked to the now defunct thinkinglightly.com website circa 2013. I’ve only been through O’Hare once since then and didn’t have time to take new photos to update the page, although it’s on my list of pages to update and expand at some point. Should it only list Kristina as the artist? (The limited Information I’ve found credits both of you.)
It’s still my favorite airport art installation anywhere.