Tower Snake by Huang Yong Ping

Posted by Alex in Architecture, Arts & Crafts on July 9, 2009 at 3:17 pm


Photo: Gladstone Gallery

You’re looking at Tower Snake, a spiral ramp built with bamboo and cast-aluminum snake skeleton by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, currently on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York.

The Gallery describes Yong Ping’s creation in amusing art-speak as "subtly transforming the cruciform symbol of Christian salvation into the tangled figure of Edenic tempation" (huh?) but I say it’s pretty darn cool to imagine walking into the belly of a giant snake: Link | More photos at the Gladstone Gallery

 
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Aluminum Can No Match for World's Electricity

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Optical Illusion Build a machine to crush aluminum can using four
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Crush a can: $1 million.

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