‘Birds of the World in the Skies Over Alcorcón’ in Alcorcón, Spain

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Look up in Alcorcón and you might spot a flock of birds frozen forever in flight. They won’t migrate, sing, or flap their wings, but these colorful creatures have an important story to tell. Birds of the World in the Skies Over Alcorcón, created in 2009 by Peruvian artist Luis Arias Vera, fills Plaza de la Hispanidad with an exuberant celebration of flight and the natural world. Arias Vera saw birds as masters of something humans have spent centuries trying to imitate. Their effortless flight i