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'Navigator'

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

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"The Navigator " was designed to commemorate the "miracle of flight" in the form of a blue heron. The sculpture, 24 feet high with a total wingspan of 44 feet, is mainly composed of recycled plane parts and has a hand-blown glass eye. 

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Norfolk, Virginia
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36.897621, -76.215319

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