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World’s Largest Artwork Created on Frozen Lake Baikal!
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A team of eight people committed to walking in circles for art, including a documentary filmmaker and a photographer. Given the ethereal nature of the piece, it’s not surprising how important documentation is to the process. After all, ice is one of the most potent artistic materials of our modern age. The team lived in a yurt in the center of the lake, building a fire on the lake bed every night (it would re-freeze every morning). Though the artwork melted away in May, the experience is chronicled on The Anthropologist, a site for promoting new work by Anthropologie. Yep. The folks who put together those massive store displays sent eight people to Siberia to draw circles. And thanks for that.
+ Jim Denevan
+ The Anthropologist
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The incredible concentric forms you see above are neither crop circles nor alien landings — they are part and parcel of the world’s largest artwork, which spans nine square miles! Jim Denevan, who created the previous worlds-largest-artwork in the Nevada desert last year, headed out to Siberia this year to draw these beautiful patterns on ice with a team of helpers and a broom. Denevan is known for creating expansive, meditative works with repetitive patterns and endless scale. Given that, Lake…
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A team of eight people committed to walking in circles for art, including a documentary filmmaker and a photographer. Given the ethereal nature of the piece, it’s not surprising how important documentation is to the process.
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The team lived in a yurt in the center of the lake, building a fire on the lake bed every night (it would re-freeze every morning).
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Ice is one of the most potent artistic materials of our modern age.
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Though the artwork melted away in May, the experience is chronicled on The Anthropologist, a site for promoting new work by Anthropologie.
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The massive art installation stretches on for nine square miles.
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Yep. Anthropologie sent eight people to Siberia to draw circles.
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