Other Worlds by American Sculptor Tom Otterness

A series of eight interactive bronze sculptures are spread throughout the activity nodes in passenger terminal C at Hamad International Airport. These playgrounds are in three locations at the airport: the first location features the tower figures and two reclining cylinder figures; the second features a sitting cylinder figure and another reclining cylinder figure; and the third location features a sitting cone and sitting sphere facing each other. There are also many small, six inch figures that reflect the international travellers that use the airport, placed on various areas around the larger figures.

For the installation, Tom Otterness worked closely with Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry in Rock Tavern, New York to cast this series of large-scale bronze figures that appear to be in play with one another. With slides and seats for limbs and play-pen-like chambers for torsos, these figures invite visitors at the airport - both children and adults - to engage, interact and find recreational enjoyment in the sculptures. Tom Otterness is widely known for his public installations both in the United States and abroad.