Sky Landing Jackson Park

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Sky Landing is a sculpture by Yoko Ono on the north side of Wooded Island in Jackson Park, Chicago: a dozen lotus petals, each 12 feet tall. Dedicated on 17 October 2016, it stands on the site of the 1893 Japanese Phoenix Pavilion.

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A dozen stainless steel lotus petals, each 12 feet tall, rise from sloping mounds of earth on Wooded Island in Jackson Park, on the ground where a Japanese pavilion stood until it was destroyed by arson in 1946.

Yoko Ono's Sky Landing was dedicated on 17 October 2016. The Chicago Park District calls it her first permanent public artwork in the Americas; at the dedication Mayor Rahm Emanuel called it "the largest installation by Yoko Ono in the world". It was a partnership between the Park District and the nonprofit Project 120.

The site has a long history. The Ho-o-den, or Phoenix Pavilion, came to Chicago as a gift from Japan after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. CBS Chicago reports that the Japanese garden around it was closed after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, that the pavilion was burned in 1946, and that the garden was rebuilt in 1980 to 1981 and became known as the Osaka Japanese Garden in 1993. The Garden of the Phoenix, the Japanese garden on the island, stands beside the sculpture.

According to the Garden of the Phoenix Foundation, Ono first visited in 2013, woke in January 2015 with a vision of a lotus rising from the ashes of the pavilion, and in June 2015 held a ground healing ceremony at which two mounds were installed in a yin and yang shape. The Park District quotes her describing the work as the "place where the sky and earth meet", and calls it a symbol of peace.

The Hyde Park Herald reported that dancers moved through the sculpture in a performance on 26 July 2026. The Foundation says a final phase will join the sculpture and the Japanese garden.

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A sculpture of twelve steel lotus petals set among earth mounds on Wooded Island in Jackson Park, next to the Garden of the Phoenix. It is an open-air public artwork in a city park; the island is also known for its Japanese garden.

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On the north side of Wooded Island in Jackson Park, Chicago; the Chicago Park District gives the address 6401 S Stony Island Ave for the park listing. It is outdoors in a public park.

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