Big Bambu

The Big Picture: Big Bambú: “A new installation by the artists Mike and Doug Starn brings to mind a giant game of pickup sticks that has been abandoned by an extremely large child.”

The piece, which is made from 2,000 bamboo poles lashed together with some 16 miles of nylon rope, was assembled under the artists’ direction by a team of about a dozen rock climbers over a period of 10 weeks. Seemingly self-generating, “Big Bambú” grew from within itself, without the support of external scaffolding, making it more akin to a living organism than anything constructed by human hands. At its highest point the random matrix skims the ceiling of the nearly-50-foot factory space.

(Via NYT > Art and Design.)