Heathrow Sculpture Celebrates Flight
Artist Richard Wilson jammed a cardboard plane into a plastic hamster ball and bowled it along the floor, saying to engineers: “This is what I want!” The result? An 77-ton aluminium artwork that is likely to become the most viewed piece of public art in the UK. “Slipstream” is a simulation of a stunt plane’s flight path and you can almost hear it soaring through its home in the new $4 billion Heathrow Terminal 2 building.
