The article discusses the performance 'Day Flight (2025)' by artist Madeline Hollander, which involves a flight over the devastated Palisades fire area. Initially focused on the bodily sensations of flight, the performance's meaning deepened due to the landscape's transformation. Hollander encourages viewers to engage intimately with the elements encountered, emphasizing a personal experience of movement through aerial views of the destruction, highlighting the contrast between vast and detailed perspectives, and inviting contemplation on ecological themes and human connection with nature.
From 2,500ft in the air, the destruction from January's Palisades fire feels vast, appearing as an enormous blight across the dry, yellowed mountainside.
Conceived before the fires, the piece initially focused on these sensations of the body, but its meaning has since changed.
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