A beautiful, ethereal installation of 100,000 balloons comes to London’s Covent Garden

[n2doc]

Take a walk through London’s historic Covent Garden market and the ceiling will be an ethereal cloud of shifting white light. As you shop, Charles Pétillon’s installation “Heartbeats,” which opens today (Aug. 27), will softly pulse above you.


The sculpture is 177 ft long, 40 ft wide, and made from 100,000 white balloons. It’s part of a larger series by Pétillon, who tells Dezeen that the sculpture is about fragility—”represented by contrasting materials and also the whiteness of the balloons that move and pulse, appearing as alive and vibrant as the area itself,” he says.



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[NV Whino]

1. A pin. A pin. My kingdom for a pin.

[66 dmhlt]

2. Very cool! Thanks for finding & sharing it!

[tclambert]

3. The balloons are all white. Is this a Donald Trump campaign event?

[Galileo126]

4. I prefer 99 luftballons... (nt)

[snagglepuss]

5. I'm incensed with this and can't believe someone who posts so much

in the Science Forum thinks this a good idea.

Given that Helium is a precious but FINITE resource that is rapidly dwindling with no alternative in sight, no one let alone artists should be wasting it in balloons. Artists should be raising awareness not creating frivolous displays of pointless waste.

And speaking of waste, how many pounds of plastic will be within days carted off to landfills or end up in waterways?

[mackerel]

6. ...

[Tikki]

7. Looks like adipose...

Tikki

[Enthusiast]

8. n2doc, you always show us cool stuff.