Giant billowing aerial sculpture installed over Boston park

A giant aerial sculpture is floating over a park in Boston’s Financial District, bringing a shimmer of spring where snowplow piles towered just weeks ago.

May 04, 2015
Giant billowing aerial sculpture installed over Boston park
Giant billowing aerial sculpture installed over Boston park

 

 

The colorful 600-foot sculpture suspended between high-rise buildings above the Rose Kennedy Greenway on Monday in Boston. - AP

 

BOSTON — A giant aerial sculpture is floating over a park in Boston’s Financial District, bringing a shimmer of spring where snowplow piles towered just weeks ago. On Monday, dozens of workers closed nearby streets and set to work installing the 600-foot work by artist Janet Echelman, using a battery of cranes and scissor lifts. The orange and magenta netting made of polyethylene rope weighs a ton, and is designed to respond fluidly to wind and weather. It will remain suspended in the Rose Kennedy Greenway between two high-rise buildings across the Greenway through October. Echelman is based in suburban Brookline. Her sculpture — which includes more than 100 miles of twine — is inspired by ancient fishing nets. She has installed similar works in Seattle; Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; and other cities. — AP

 

May 04, 2015
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