Opening Tuesday, December 3, 2025, 4—6pm

December 3, 2024–JanUARy 28, 2025

Hernando’s Hideaway returns featuring an installation by Miami’s own Justin H. Long.

PAN-PAN is a 25-foot sailboat mast acting as a flagpole for alpha or numerical signal flags from the International Code of Symbols. Its ever-changing messages and phrases range from humorous to serious, in Memoriam, or simply as poetic wax. PAN-PAN is viewable to the public 24 hours, 7 days a week in Hernando’s Hideaway sculpture lawn.

Used in radiotelephony communications by aviation, marine, and citizen’s band radio, transmitting the International Urgency Signal “Pan Pan,” (in threes, Pan-Pan…Pan-Pan…Pan-Pan…) declares an urgent yet not immediately dangerous situation such as a mechanical breakdown, failure, or need required by passengers or vessel to potential rescuers. The three letter acronym meaning “Possible Assistance Needed” as a callout word that hierarchically comes before the emergency “mayday” distress signal. In its language of symbols, PAN-PAN imparts a means of sending and receiving communication across especially when language barriers or difficulties arise.

The flags in Long’s installation might initially appear familiar from their aesthetically appropriated use in “coastal” or “nautical” design, but their noticeably unique arrangement transforms them into a cypher; the sailboat-mast-turned-flagpole into a monumental signaling vessel, requiring its audience and onlookers to uncover its coded messages.

CONTRIBUTE to PAN-PAN! Submit a phrase or message with a maximum of 17 letters to hq@hernandoshideaway.org!

DRIVE BY! Please stop by to see the exhibition while traveling to or from any Art Week events on Miami Beach.

Justin Hayes Long (b. 1980, Miami FL) holds a MFA from California College of the Arts, Valencia, CA, teaches sculpture at the University of Miami, and is Production Manager for Fringe Projects, Miami. Selected solo exhibitions include The Bass Museum of Art (Miami Beach, FL), Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL); and Art & Culture Center/Hollywood (Hollywood, FL). Selected group exhibitions include The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA); the De la Cruz Collection (Miami, FL); and the New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). He was the recipient of artist support grants Wavemaker-Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Ellies, Oolite Arts, Miami. Justin H. Long lives and works in Miami, FL.

Hernando’s Hideaway is located at 423 W 30th Street, Miami Beach, 33140. For any other questions or inquiries, please contact hq@hernandoshideaway.org or find us @hernandoshdwy

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