Portrait of Muhammad Ali Made out of Punching Bags



Michael Kalish created this elaborate sculpture that, when viewed from the right angle, looks like Muhammad Ali:

[...]artist Michael Kalish went big, using 1,300 punching bags, 6.5 miles of stainless steel cable, and 2,500 pounds of aluminum pipe to construct a 22-foot-high installation that took three years to complete.

The idea for the project came to Kalish as he was falling asleep one night in 2008: an array of custom-made, teardrop-shaped speed bags suspended in midair that, from just one vantage point, align themselves like pixels into an image of Ali’s face.


It's not actually quite done yet. Ali himself will hang the final bag at the unveiling.

Link | Photo: Wired

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