# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTXHUANdLx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18810736-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-02T22:00:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

As we take in the new KCI terminal, many of you wanted to know what would happen to the tiles in the old airport. 

A standout feature of the now-defunct terminals was the deep blue floors inlaid with brass symbols and colorful mosaic medallions.

More than 40 of the mosaic medallions from the old Terminal A were repurposed for an installation in the new airport — but we still don’t know the fate of the mosaics in terminals B and C.

On Wednesday, airport spokesperson Joe McBride told The Star that the fate of the floors in B and C has “yet to be determined.”

The mosaics, and the blue terrazzo floor around them, were part of an art installation called “Polarities” by artists Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel. Installed in 2004, the piece was “inspired by the phenomena of flight, by dramatic shifts of perspective, and by the mapping of air, of sky and land,” the artists wrote.

“I felt like I was walking into the rest of the world on those floors,” said Shelby Wells, a Missouri native and Star reader who first visited Kansas City’s airport on her way to space camp at age 11. “I was literally walking on stars, on my way to NASA. I felt like the galaxy was on my side.”

Read more at the link in our bio. 

#KansasCity #KCIAirport #KCArt #KCMO #KCI

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kciairport, kcart, kansascity, kcmo, kci

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