Time and Books Fly at the Berkeley Library

I was so  late and rushed into the Berkeley Library to join my sketching group. I was stopped in my tracks by the wonderful flock of books above the students in their carrels and computer stations. The installation, "Flights of Mind" by Vita Wells , temporarily hovers  in the atrium of the Berkeley Public Library through February 24, 2013.  Please see fellow sketchers' posts on this blog and visit  the library to experience the installation yourself!

Berkeley Main Library

"Flights of Mind" is an installation by Vita Wells in the atrium of the main library in downtown Berkeley.  The piece, a flock of flying books, "celebrates possibility and community across space and time" and will be up until Sunday 2/24.

Looking up through the installation at Susan drawing the exhibit from the second floor.

  

Looking through an interior window to a replica of a lantern and restoration of ceiling beam stenciling from the original 1931 Art Moderne-style building, designed by architect James Plachek.