Flight

Flight by artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh pictures what it would be like for Black people to rise off the ground into the sky, imagining “flying” as a metaphor for liberation, escape, and transformation. Flight is the largest of a series of murals by the same name located around Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

An inscription at the bottom of the mural reads: “I let go of what has weighed me down. Light as a feather, I ride the wind. Like Black folks have always done. Flying free above the structures built to confine us.”

The mural was completed in partnership with Kensington Health Sciences Academy, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and the University of the Arts.