When Art Basel visitors travel west for a look at the new Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, which is hosting a ''Breakfast in the [Sculpture] Park'' Sunday open to the public, they will be greeted by a 40-foot-tall digital tapestry created by Miami artist Xavier Cortada.

Titled aer in Greek, it's the first of four commissioned tapestries -- inspired by the four elements: air, water, fire and earth -- to be rotated at the museum's soaring atrium. As visitors enter the 40,000-square foot building and walk up to the second-floor galleries, the tapestry's upward floating leaves seem to be accompanying them.

''This work makes quite a first impression,'' said Carol Damian, director and chief curator of the Frost.

Cortada's work was chosen from among 80 pieces by artists who submitted proposals to the Frost for the Art in Public Places installation.

''It's an invitation to go upstairs and explore the art in the museum, and your relationship with nature,'' Cortada says of his artwork's position in the $19 million building, designed by architect Yann R. Weymouth to make the most of the campus' natural surroundings, including a lagoon view.

-- FABIOLA SANTIAGO

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