Air Traffic Control
Tower at Los Angeles International Airport. XX Marks the Sport is
a piece about location: the technological and natural locations -
the natural is represented by the egg form of the El Segundo Blue,
an endangered butterfly which lives only on the dunes west of the
airport. The technical location is represented by the patterns used
in air traffic control. The egg spans 2 floors and is filled with
250 runway lights (blue, red, yellow, and white). The computerized
lighting program is a 60 second subliminal clock that depicts a different
image every second. Occasionally the lights form an abstraction of
the butterfly in blue lights. The 150' 12 strand woven "x"
cascades from the 15 floor balcony landing on the base building. The
double "xx" represents a diagram of flight and is the mysterious
"x" for LAX.