Friday, November 9, 2012

2D, 3D, 2D: Giant Crumpled Paper Drops From The Sky, Lands On Hill In New Zealand

Via NPR's Krulwich Wonders Blog:
You are standing in a park in New Zealand. You look up at the top of a hill, and there, balanced on the ground, looking like it might catch a breeze and blow away, is a gigantic, rumpled piece of paper.
Except ... one side of it, the underside, is ... not there. You can see the sky, clouds, birds where there should be paper, so what is this?
Neil Dawson Sculpture
Gibbs Farm
 
As you approach, you realize it is made of metal. It's a sculpture, made of welded and painted steel that looks like a two dimensional cartoon drawing of a three dimensional piece of paper ... that is three dimensional if you get close, but looks two dimensional if you stay at the bottom of the hill...

Neil Dawson Sculpture
Gibbs Farm
 
Neil Dawson Sculpture
Gibbs Farm
...as you can see from these two-dimensional photographs of the three-dimensional sculpture that looks like a two-dimensional cartoon sitting on a three-dimensional hill — STOP!!! My head hurts....
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