A trio of 'flying creatures’ whose wings drop down to form the dwelling places of a city.

In the original installation, the ceiling was composed of a visually dominant beam structure, from which the piece was hung. On the ceiling are installed three butterfly-like structures: each 'butterfly' is made of square aluminum tubing; each has a rectangular body framework. four, feet long by two feet by two feet; each has two large triangular wings, fourteen feet long and ranging from four feet at the body to sixteen feet at the far end -- each wing is parallel to the ceiling and up against it, each wing has a triangular tubing and cord structure so that it resembles a space frame, each wing as a roll of blue fabric at its end. The two butterflies at each end of the space have an aluminum framework for 'head and tail, each ‘butterfly' faces the center; the butterfly in the middle has two heads, so that it faces in either direction. Hanging down from each butterfly is a swing made of strips of leather; the swing at each end butterfly has a back, so that the swing is directed toward the center (the swing resembles a cocoon).

If a viewer sits on the swing at either of the end butterflies, the body moves on track toward the center of the space, while the wings swoop down to the ground, in the shape of a tent, or a conventional hipped roof. If a viewer sits on the swing at the middle butterfly, the body stays in place while the wings swoop down like those of the end butterflies. When three viewers sit on the swings at the same time, the pyramid-shapes formed by the wings are joined together at the bottom, like a city of structures.

Once each wing is down, a ring is within reach at each wing. If a viewer keeps sitting on the swing, so that the wings remain down, another viewer can pull on the ring, raising -- from a shade-roller at the bottom --- a long shade that rises fourteen feet to cover the wing. Each shade depicts a hand rising against a blue sky covered with clouds. At the end butterflies, the hands are black silhouettes; at one end, one hand has its index finger raised, the other hand has its middle finger raised -- at the other end, one hand has two fingers raised, as if in a victory sign (or as if making a shadow rabbit on the wall), the other hand is a clenched fist. At the middle butterfly, the hands are red silhouettes, all fingers extended, the palms (or backs) cut into with holes. for eyes and mouth: one hand is the mask of a happy, (comic) face, the other hand is the mask of a sad (tragic) face.

When the viewers let go of the rings, the shades fall back into place; when the viewers get up out of the swings, the wings rise back up to the ceiling.