New airport art exhibit ‘Ripple’ features sculptures made with crayons

If you’re traveling through Atlanta’s airport, then you’ll want to check out a new art installation in Concourse D.

“The exhibit features six large-scale sculptures composed of over 500,000 Crayola crayons,” Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport said in a news release.

The exhibit called “Ripple” was created by Nashville artist Herb Williams.

“The colorful set of sculptures depict different sets of animals— such as a bull with snakes, an octopus with rabbits, a turtle with a fox, a deer with birds, and a polar bear with a penguin,” the airport said.

Williams spent more than two years creating the sculptures.

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“We hope that passengers of all ages get to experience a little bit of this magic when they encounter ‘Ripple’ and travel through ATL,” Hartsfield-Jackson senior art program director Benjamin Austin said.

“Finding the extraordinary in the mundane fascinates me. The wild, natural world around us is full of moments that can completely mystify if we but put down our phones and patiently breathe, listen, and watch,” Williams said. “In this series of six sculptures, ‘Ripple,’ the simple act of passing through a body of water has deep and profound effects for the viewer, animals, and their smaller passengers.”

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