Location: Foxtronics Building

Description: A wooden structure with bottle caps.  It is the only piece purchased by Aviation and is not a part of the Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Permanent collection.  It was specifically designed for Love Field and is 5’ x 6’.  It is made up of thousands of red color bottle caps nailed to a heart-shaped wooden structure.

About the Artist: Dakota Redington Pratt is an award-winning, emerging artist whose found-object, process artworks are truly original. Collecting bottlecaps from restaurants and bar owners, who know and collect his works, Pratt flattens them with a sledge-hammer, then nailing them in fish-scale patterns to his carpentered forms underneath. The care with which he arranges color details and shapes and forms his wood substrates are hard-won dimensions of true finesse, combining to make these works marvels of ‘engineering’ as well as of style and technique. Finally, Pratt epoxies his sculptures’ surfaces, so they are knick- and waterproof, even withstanding outdoor installation.

Pratt received his art education at Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio, and he is the recent recipient of the “Lincoln Innovation” Award.