The newest work from the half-icelandic artist is as surprising as his previous ones. Now he has taken aerial pics of some intriguing holes formed on the glaciars by the melting ice.
I recommend you to step by his selected works.
…”OLAFUR ELIASSON lay suspended from a ladder that extended over a hole in the Vatnajokull Glacier in Iceland. Measuring from 600 to 900 feet deep, the hole looked like a melting pockmark in the glacier’s seemingly impenetrable surface. In two days Mr. Eliasson and his crew, which included a glaciologist and a landscape architect, had discovered 35 of them. The smaller ones were just wide enough “so my body would fit into them,” Mr. Eliasson said several days later, back in his Berlin studio. The larger ones measured about six feet, “wide enough to swallow a small car.”…
The work…
The result…
>>> http://www.olafureliasson.net/
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