Flight Stop

Flight Stop
Interior of the Toronto Eaton Centre showing a view of Flight Stop
ArtistMichael Snow
Year1979 (1979)
TypeSculpture
Medium60 suspended fibreglass Canada goose forms surfaced with tinted black and white photographs
Dimensions32 x 20 x 16 m
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates43°39′10″N 79°22′49″W / 43.6528°N 79.3802°W / 43.6528; -79.3802

Flight Stop, also titled Flightstop, is a 1979 site-specific art work by Canadian artist Michael Snow. Located in the Toronto Eaton Centre in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the work hangs from the ceiling and appears to depict sixty Canada geese in flight. Each individual goose is made of Styrofoam covered in fibreglass and covered in a sheath made from photographs taken from a single goose. The flock is frozen in mid-flight, "flight stop" being a pun on the nature of still photography. When conceived in 1977, the work was titled Flight Stop but has frequently also been titled Flightstop. The work remains an iconic public art piece in Toronto and in many ways stands as a visual identity for the mall.