Randy Polumbo, who lives and works in New York City and Joshua Tree (and owns local gallery Art Queen), has embellished a 50-foot-high Lockheed Martin Lodestar jet with glass flowers, crystals and mirrors. It's a collision between the decorated saucer and aircraft – or, perhaps, a synergy. "I love the idea of taking this very male projectile and instrument of battle, and making a female form that I see as a kind of particle collider for connections between people," Polumbo said via email. "The reflections, the bright colors, the intentionally strange and intimate spaces, an inward journey made from something that was supposed to do the opposite."
