Brooklyn-based artist Kambui Olujimi created "Where the Sky Begins" for the Avenue I station in the Mapleton neighborhood of Brooklyn. Olujimi worked with fabricator Depp Glass to create laminated glass panels that depict photographs he has taken around the world. This series of artworks speaks to the international nature of Brooklyn and the greater city of New York, and is inspired by the interdependence of our global community. While individuals are intrinsically unique, we all intersect and overlap through our shared experiences, at home and afar.  

Olujimi references our universal connections and the infinite changing skies, whether it be in Johannesburg or Jerusalem, Beijing or Brooklyn, Rio or Rome. Amongst the shifting clouds, we all find a place to wander within the abstract spaces that hold infinite possibilities. The common place of human experience is where the sky begins. 

Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and received his MFA from Columbia University. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as "inevitabilities." This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video, and performance. His solo exhibitions include; Zulu Time, at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, A Life in Pictures, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia, at Cue Arts Foundation, and Wayward North at Art in General.