Saturday 30 March 2013

Next Time You See A Street Performer Making Animals From Balloons,

if you have enough time ask him to make you one of these,


this fantastic piece is the work of New York artist Jason Michael Hackenwerth, titled Pisces the sculpture is the artist’s interpretation of the legend of Aphrodite and Eros: in Greek mythology, Aphrodite, the Goddess of love and her son, Eros, escaped the fearsome monster Typhon by transforming into a tightly woven spiral of two fish, a figure which later became a constellation called Pisces,


the spiralling form is made from 10,000 balloons which took three staff members nearly six days to blow up, after which Hackenwerth and his assistant Leah Blair wove carefully into this three dimensional structure, the finished piece can be seen till April 14th, 2013 at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland, I hope they have a air pump handy!


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