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1,000 Bulbous 'Sea Anemones' Wobble Under a Taiwan Metro Bridge
The public art piece for kids turns this flow of ocean motion “into a city scene.”
For youngsters who like to imagine they’re fish exploring a coral reef—or angry tots who like smacking those self-righting Bozo the Clowns—here’s a public-art exhibit in Taiwan that riffs on marine life with a thousand inflated, rainbow-colored tubes.
The 650-foot-long installation, designed by City Yeast, recently appeared under a metro-station bridge in Taipei. When children ran through them, the translucent balloons swayed and bobbled much in the way sea anemone tentacles do in the tide. They also emitted weird lights and sounds, their creators write at Designboom: