Big enough to fit more than 176 Wembley Stadiums, the giant landmark is visible from 12km (7.5 miles) up and airline passengers have been stunned by its beauty. Even Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson called to congratulate designer Jim Denevan on his ambitious work.
The artist and three colleagues took 15 days to complete the project, working day and night.
It features more than 1,000 individual circles, which they painstakingly ‘drew’ by dragging a roll of chain fencing 2m (6ft) wide behind a 4×4 repeatedly to etch markings into the desert sand.
you cant fool me–clearly those crop circle aliens did it!
“Big enough to fit more than 176 Wembley Stadiums.” Well, cheers. Why don’t these idiots just tell us how big this thing is in, oh, I don’t know, metres?
“‘I set out to build the largest artwork in the world and I am extremely proud that I have managed to do this,’ said the artist.” Ok, so how smegging big is it?
Sheesh.
And did someone offer to buy it ? I myself prefer art for a larger public. Not sure about the artistic aspect in this.
This was in The Sun today, hard to imagine just how large this is. Amazing!
LC x
Holy shit that’s 9 miles long?!
….too much time on our hands nowadays >.>
rofl kidding… like I’m doing anything productive nowadays..
kinda siding with nopke on this one:
at least christo’s stuff is visible to the general public.
pix won’t look much different than photoshopping…
well, gosh, sir branson liked it. “i’ll fly over it all the time”
still, pushing boundaries is cool.
Looks like Time Lord handwriting to me.
Saw the heading first on Twitter and thought, “Oh great, another ridiculous creation dubbed ‘art’. Just a big circle that happens to be nine miles wide.” But THAT, I have to say, is a little more impressive.