Travelers can share a hug and a kiss with “XO,” a public art piece that gets its message across in 12-foot-high aluminum letters.
If you’ve ever been to an airport terminal — or just watched the beginning of “Love Actually” — you know a lot of affection takes place as people send loved ones on a trip or welcome them home. And that’s what makes San Jose Mineta International Airport the perfect home for a public art installation that’s all about hugs and kisses.
“When I put this up two months ago, I realized the airport was the one place that people kiss and hug the most,” Kimpton said at the piece’s dedication Thursday. “It was like ‘Whoa! This is so appropriate.’ ” John Aitken, the city’s director of aviation said this newest installation of public art is part of whyin the Airport Service Quality Awards.
The 12-foot high aluminum letters, installed at the approach to Terminal B’s drop off and pickup lane, are illuminated by LED lights from within, with the colors showing through laser-cut shapes of birds. The birds — perfect for an airport installation — are Kimpton’s calling card and also a tribute to her father, hotelier Bill Kimpton, who died in 2001. He would travel to Siena, Italy, every year to see migrating swallows there.
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