I Dreamed I Could Fly
Jonathan Borofsky
(American, born in 1942)
2000
Medium/TechniqueFiberglass, acrylic paint (one figure with electric light)
DimensionsSix figures, each approximately (H x W) 157.5 x 91.4 cm (62 x 36 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Hank and Lois Foster
Accession number2001.269.2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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Since the early 1970s Jonathan Borofsky has addressed universal human concerns in his installations and giant public sculptures. In 1982 he suspended a life-sized flying figure over the Berlin Wall as a tangible (and political) symbol of freedom. In this work, made especially for the MFA, his flying figures suggest the essential human desires for harmony and individual happiness. Borofsky says these figures "are able to rise up and look down upon the whole planet … They … see and feel that human beings are all connected together and that we are all one-no divisions and no walls."
Borofsky’s work is driven by the ideals of equality and harmony. Made especially for the wide open spaces of the Linde Family Wing, these flying figures “are able to rise up and look down upon the whole planet … [they] see and feel that human beings are all connected together and that we are all one—no divisions and no walls.”
ProvenanceThe artist; to MFA, Boston, 2001CopyrightReproduced with permission.
