Ione Thorkelsson’s relatively delicate work stands in marked contrast.... At one end of the terminal, Ione Thorkelsson’s Incoming (2011) is a flock of cast-glass bird wings, simultaneously gorgeous and nightmarish.  Each pair of colorless wings is disembodied, with the rest of the bird replaced by a steel armature. There’s a refreshing polysemy in the work, especially for public sculpture. Incoming suggests uplift and flight, angels, and flocking birds; it recalls Michael Snow’s installation Flightstop (1979) in Toronto’s Eaton Centre shopping mall.  But the detached wings also suggest human interruptions of nature, species loss, and Icarus’s mythical  hubris.

- William Ganis, GLASS Quarterly, Spring 2012. A review of art installations at the James A. Richardson International Airport, Winnipeg.