A Sudden Gust of Wind

By Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis

Nov 2—May 3, 2026

Nolan Park - Nolan Park - Lawn

Picnic Point - Picnic Point - Picnic Point

Lenka Clay­ton and Phillip Andrew Lewis
A Sud­den Gust of Wind, 2025
101 pow­der-coat­ed alu­minum kites with fab­ric tails
Pre­sent­ed by Gov­er­nors Island Art

A series of mul­ti-col­ored kites appear to be crashed and trapped in trees. Their forms are crum­pled and their fab­ric tails are ani­mat­ed by the weath­er, tan­gling over time with­in the branches. 

A view­er com­ing across this work is reward­ed for look­ing up. This piece, dis­cov­ered rather than point­ed at, invites an audi­ence to con­sid­er them­selves care­ful­ly attuned to the mate­r­i­al remains of life’s idio­syn­crasies. The kites read as a col­or­ful after­math of an implied cel­e­bra­to­ry event. A kite fes­ti­val gone wrong. A fam­i­ly after­noon that end­ed in tears. A sud­den gust of wind that broke the string teth­er­ing the kite its own­er. The instal­la­tion rep­re­sents a range of emo­tions from joy to tragedy.

A Sud­den Gust of Wind was orig­i­nal­ly pre­sent­ed on Gov­er­nors Island as part of Rest/​Play and is on view in Nolan Park and at Pic­nic Point through spring 2026.