EWETOPIA
A giant crayon-skinned paper plane, folded by a whole city and hung over a pond — an imagined commons where every dream finds a flock to land in.
The big idea (try not to tear up)
The paper plane is the most universal thing we own: childhood, a quick flick of the wrist, the act of sending something out and hoping it lands somewhere kind. Ewetopia takes that throwaway gesture and blows it up to the size of a migration.
Hung over the reflecting pool at Collect Pond Park, the sculpture is a bridge between the hard ground of the city and the fluid, shifting business of being a person far from home. “Landing” is the moment one journey ends and a brand-new story is allowed to begin.
← this is the part where the diaspora kids drew their grandmothers’ goats with wings.
Vital stats
- FormOne enormous suspended paper plane
- SkinPatchwork of community paintings & drawings
- MaterialsWeather-proof paper-composite, ink, paint, steel frame
- SiteReflecting pool, Collect Pond Park, NYC
- PartnerKorea Art Forum (KAF)
- StatusSuspended over water, nose pointed somewhere hopeful
Visual dialogue
Sketches, colors and abstract marks carry the feelings that slip through any translation. You draw it; we get it.
Tactile making
Kids to elders drew straight onto the plane’s skin. Every hand left a mark — the sculpture became a living archive of touch.
Where you from?
Two questions — “What is that?” and “Where are you from?” — turned creatures, homes and family into the project’s real vocabulary.
WHAT 842 PEOPLE DREW
Numbers are real-ish: tallied from workshop logs, then rounded with affection.
What the flock drew
Where we’re from
- United States210
- Iran138
- Korea121
- Mexico96
- China74
- Dominican Rep.63
- + 140 neighbors from 26 other homelands · everyone got a wing.
Workshop flight log · spring 2025
Feelings on the skin
- Joy 31%
- Longing / nostalgia 26%
- Hope 19%
- Wonder 14%
- Homesickness 10%
Where they land
I drew my grandma’s goat. It can fly now.
Home is the smell, not the map. So I drew the smell.
Mine is the purple one with the rocket. Please don’t lose it.