10,000 Feet (2013) is a monumental mural that offers viewers a breathtaking aerial perspective of central Indiana, as if seen from 10,000 feet above ground. Captivated by the Midwestern landscape’s saturated greens and browns—especially vivid in summer—Cvijanovic translated its gridded expanses into a composition that evoked both awe and surreal order. With this work, he invited viewers to float above the land’s visual paradoxes and to experience a disorienting sense of space—particularly striking in its location within a hotel hallway. 

Framed by a trompe l’oeil rupture in the wallboard, the mural created the illusion of a smashed-open wall through which the vast fields could be seen. A pair of doors appeared to float amid the fields and clouds, further enhancing the sense that one might step directly into the landscape. Through this theatrical framing, 10,000 Feet explores Cvijanovic’s ongoing interest in the sublime and the mundane, the natural and the constructed. .