Although that is a stunning visual, this certainly won't translate to the Re-nest site!

sticky!
it's really quite pretty.
my kids would it.

"It all seems so single use...use boxes, get rid of boxes, tape up boxes, remove tape from boxes. But then of course I never had a true appreciation for packing tape until I saw this art installation from DMY Berlin."

Um... It *IS* single use. A sculpture that uses 700 rolls of packing tape doesn't change this, nor does 'appreciating' the tape.

Wow - What a waste.

I saw a documentary last nite about Hawaii - they showed an entire beach on the Big Island covered with plastic crap that had washed up from all over the world - the seagulls barely had room to land for all the bottles, bags, tape dispensers, etc...
...160 man-hours would go a long way to help clean up any number of polluted beaches around the world.

All I can think of are the massive islands of floating plastic in the 7 gyres of the world and the chicks dying of starvation on the nests on the Midway Atoll islands with heaps of plastic where their stomachs used to be.

...the albatross chicks...

Great point bepsf. As an artwork it is quite beautiful, and I appreciate works that afford the opportunity for viewer to interaction. But being inside a web of sticky plastic is not my idea of fun, and the detrimental impact of this material on the environment and wildlife lends to repulsion not appreciation.

A bit creepy and yes, a huge waste of tape. Looks like a giant spider web...

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It's an art piece, people. They're rarely "green" (gotta love them heavy metals in glass for color and in a lot of paints for the same reason!) and even more rarely re-usable afterwords. Just because it uses tape instead of clay or metal or glass doesn't mean it shouldn't be held to the same standards. Do you really think, say, a Chihuly (or however you spell his name) exibit is any less wasteful?

A lovely sculpture and very interesting idea. I love how the lights make it glow.

"Do you really think, say, a Chihuly (or however you spell his name) exibit is any less wasteful?"

Yes.
Any glass - including Chihuly's work - can be relatively easily moved. If it's broken, it can be easily recycled to make new glassware...
...and if left on a beach, it would inevitably break down into sand again.

This plastic packing tape "sculpture" cannot easily be moved, cannot be recycled into something else when it tears or wears out, will reside in landfill as a wad of plastic for thousands of years...
...and if left on a beach would become just more plastic garbage to choke turtles and other sealife - In fact, scientists and fishermen have been finding sealife and birds for years with deposits of plastic beads in their flesh and plastic garbage in their stomachs that were consumed as "Food".

With all the unemployment I wish we could create jobs to clean up that mess bepsf, I wonder how.

It's not all about cleaning!!!

It's about what to do with it all!!!

All I see is Frodo in the giant spider scene in Lord Of The Rings.

No thanks.