Some Long Perspective Longing (14C), 2022

Commissioned by United Airlines for Newark Airport

Dahlia Elsayed’s Some Long Perspective Longing (14C) is a 52’ long painting that combines aerial and terrestrial, distant and near views to suggest the experience of moving through the natural and built environments of urban centers.

Wrapping around a central wall in the United Club Lounge, the work uses fragments of local scenes and maps, reassembled to make a new expanded landscape, that invite a viewer to navigate simultaneous complex vistas and question fixed perspectives.