The work, which is sponsored by the Public Art Fund, also suggests a crown so weightless that it might drift skyward at any moment.

Claude is seen through the window, blissfully drifting skyward.

Smoke drifted lazily skyward from its many chimneys.

His eyes drifted skyward, to where the airships still hovered against the horizon.

A hiss of spray splashed up from each impact, then froze to glittering mist and drifted skyward.

Through breaks in the canopy, a thin column of gray smoke drifted skyward.

Moments later, however, inexplicably, the mashed and mangled body rose suddenly above the ground and drifted skyward, twisting.

The smoke from the burning skimmers drifted skyward, bending to the right in the close breeze.

And when it was gone, the light from the blazing wreckage showed a perfect ring of smoke drifting slowly skyward.

The helicopter drifted toward the ground and tilted its nose skyward as it settled onto its skids.