Documented artwork / illuminated entrance sculpture
LoveBird
Credit as documented: Ed Carpenter
LoveBird spans the entrance to Dallas Love Field with a wide-winged form suggesting both a bird and an aircraft. Ed Carpenter connects the work with the terminal's modernist architecture and with nearby Mockingbird Lane. The sculpture is slightly canted above a pointed base and stabilized by a fan of slender cables resembling tail feathers. Embedded exterior lights and internal LEDs illuminate its painted stainless steel.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- October 2021
- Materials
- painted stainless steel, embedded exterior lighting, interior LED lighting
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 90 ft wide × 19 ft high × 25 ft deep.
- Dimensions apply to
- Documented object or named component scope only; no relocation/engineering specification. Source disagreements and architectural measurements remain explicitly qualified.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
October 2021
Dallas Love Field entrance, Dallas, Texas
- Site
- Dallas Love Field entrance
- City
- Dallas
- State / region
- TX
- Country
- United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The City of Dallas commissioned the 2021 work. Credits include Puritan Manufacturing for steel, EasTex Tower for erection, Biella Lighting Design, West Coast Wire Rope for hardware, Thompson Electric for interior wiring, Drew Carson for renderings and schematics, Arleen Daugherty for administration, and Grummel Engineering.
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Sources
- www.edcarpenter.net ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17