Wow, beautiful aerial photographs of Christo + Jeanne-Claude’s “Surrounded Islands.” alecshao: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, 1980-83 Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida “Eleven Islands surrounded by 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out 200 feet from each island into the bay.  The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands.” Wow, beautiful aerial photographs of Christo + Jeanne-Claude’s “Surrounded Islands.” alecshao: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, 1980-83 Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida “Eleven Islands surrounded by 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out 200 feet from each island into the bay.  The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands.”

Wow, beautiful aerial photographs of Christo + Jeanne-Claude’s “Surrounded Islands.”

alecshao:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands, 1980-83

Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida

“Eleven Islands surrounded by 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out 200 feet from each island into the bay. 

The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands.”


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