Kite

Yesterday I encountered this work called 'Kite' by Robin Rhodes in Kunsthal Rotterdam and found it fascinating.
The work includes a video component (which is hard to identify in the photograph) that displays the sky behind the imaginary kite. In this case the sky of New Orleans. Rhodes takes us back to the carefree times that preceded the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina.

A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you master,
strong enough to call you fool;
because it lives
like a desperate trained falcon
in the high sweet air,
and you can always haul it down
to tame it in your drawer

Excerpt of 'A kite is a victim' by Leonard Cohen