These
artists' works
elevated to the heavens
By NEELY TUCKER
Herald Staff Writer
Some people called it sky art; those mile
high, 5,000-foot wide kites, eyes and ladders floating Sunday afternoon above Hollywood
Beach. Or maybe it was skywriting, what pilot Jim Butler was doing up there, mixing
smoke, speed and heaven's blue sky to etch out his smoke signals.
Miami artist Susana Sori, who stood 9,500
feet beneath her emerging sketch "Stream of Being," saw it as a little more ,
something like man improving on nature's sense of geometry and meaning. Listen:
"The drawing is two intersecting lines, one vertical and one horizontal, like a
cross," Sori said. "These represent two energies. The swirling lines
around them show their colliding forces. As those energies swirl, they eventually
explode. The fragments from that explosion are all the little dots you see.
When I did this as a sculpture, the dots were square cubes of glass. For the sky,
they're just smoke, so it's...
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