This art installation titled "Superficial Essence of a Deep Appearance" by Fabio La Fauci and Daniele Sigalot of Blue and Joy looks like a colorful field of carpet, but take a closer look. See if you can make out what it's made out of:
The answer below:
Altogether, the installation is made up of four million pills. A million of them make up enormous mosaics on the wall and the other three million (or so, did they count them all?) make up the floor’s multi-colored carpet.
Kuriositas has more pics: Link
I'm sure they know the number because they were bought in bulk. I'm also assuming they're sugar pills or the like... or hand filled whit dirt or something.
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