My nephew and his girlfriend (the pair standing in the photo) visited and spent Thanksgiving Day with his girlfriend’s family in Chicago, Illinois. They sent us photos with the family and the places they visited around the city.
“The Bean” is one of those they went to. Cloud Gate, aka “The Bean”, is one of Chicago’s most popular sights. This work of art anchors the city’s downtown park, reflecting the city’s famous skyline and the surrounding green space.
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The Bean’s reflective surface was inspired by liquid mercury. This shiny exterior reflects the people moving around the park, the lights of Michigan Avenue, and the surrounding skyline and green space.
The polished surface also invites visitors to touch the surface and observe their own reflection, giving it an interactive quality.The reflection of the sky above the park, and the curved underside of The Bean serve as an entrance that visitors can walk under to enter the park, that is why the sculptor named it Cloud Gate.
It was designed by internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor. The Indian-born British sculptor was already well-known for his large-scale outdoor works, including several with highly reflective surfaces. Cloud Gate was his first permanent public outdoor work in the United States, and is widely considered his most famous. The Bean is 33 feet high, 42 feet wide, and 66 feet long. It weighs about 110 tons, about the same as 15 adult elephants.
Cool, I love visiting the bean sometimes on my way to work. I actually got to work with the guy who fabricated the bean on a different project. It was a smaller installation compared to the bean but it reflects the ceiling ring above it and your face melds with the images above in the reflection. https://www.scu.edu/admission/visits-events/virtual-tour/
Lucky you, you live close by and worked with somebody involved with the bean.
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Wow! What a beautiful reflections!
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