"Flightcase Study IV:
Nantucket Flap"
The Flightcase Studies
Two- and three-dimensional compositions of mixed media, primarily aircraft metals and hardware, and navigational charting.
9" x 12.75" (23 x 32 cm)

Jo-Ann Lizio O'Brien

Large Image & Materials List
Artist's Statement:
A Flightcase: something to carry items about related to flight? Or an instance of flight? These pieces expand on the latter. Flight in instrument conditions requires special skills, as well as special equipment and information. The pieces of the Flightcase Studies abstract the mission of instrument flight, as well as some of the emotion, complexity and consequence.

About the Flight Centennial Collection:
The various "Flightcase Studies", as in all works in the Flight Centennial Collection, use structural components, flight-stressed fabrics and metals, and contemporary and vintage hardware, from aircraft that played major roles in the first century of aviation.