For a brief moment, it seems we are racing against that land-bound vehicle. Our plane touches down on a grass landing strip, as a tractor mows a path parallel to ours on a field nearby. “As long as I’m moving, I’m alive, and I choose life,” says Hopkins.
For Hopkins, perspective is everything: his unique visual interpretation has contributed to success in his vocation, and his emotional perspective has enabled him to move beyond a series of tragedies, including the early deaths of his brother, father, and son. “Flying changes the way we look at the earth and gives us a sense of migration-the lives of the birds and the fish.”įrom the plane, we are privy to the unique aerial landscape that appears in the strong lines of Hopkins’s watercolors and the languid curves of his glasswork. “We connect to the planet through flying,” says 65-year-old Hopkins, who began learning to fly in 1983 and received his recreational license in 2004. As we near North Haven, and her sister island, Vinalhaven, artist Eric Hopkins points out the Morrow residence, former home of author Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband, aviator Charles Lindbergh. Far ahead, we see Stonington and Deer Isle, and to the right, Isle au Haut. Vincent Millay lie like stepping stones beneath us. The Penobscot Bay islands made famous by Rockland-born poet Edna St. Crossing Owls Head in the six-passenger Cessna operated by Penobscot Island Air pilot Jeremy Harmon, we see the Camden Hills crawling along the coastline to our left. The flight from Knox County Regional Airport to North Haven takes only eight minutes, but it follows a path that offers centuries of perspective, both geographic and historic.
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