The all-glass Airport Station is the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority's new subway station for Logan Airport and East Boston. The station acts as a threshold for residents and workers coming and going from the neighborhood of East Boston, and as a gateway for visitors to Boston from around the country and the world. As a person arrives at the station, he/she steps through a blue glass wall and enters the realm of the transit system and City of Boston.

This threshold of glass is the very place where this artwork, named "Totems of Light," is located. It celebrates these moments of passage between the larger world, the neighborhood and the City. The two windows, one for East Boston and one for the airport, are 36' and 40' tall, respectively.

Each window addresses issues relevant to its outlook and location. The East window faces the airport, and also faces the sea. Logan Airport was built upon salt marshes that are now covered by asphalt runways. This blue-green window evokes, through form, detail and color, the environment of earth, sea, marshland and sky.

The West window faces East Boston. This brightly colored window evokes the urban, multi-cultural qualities of the community of East Boston, and of the travelers using the airport.

This work was selected as the sole artwork for Airport Station by the MBTA through a limited design competition. The glass was installed in 2004.