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Secret Garden Party island floats away

By | Published on Tuesday 2 August 2011

Secret Garden Party

The creators of a floating island sculpture are making a second version of their artwork, after the first one literally floated away.

Entitled ‘Is Land’, the piece was suspended on a helium-filled base above the lake around which the Secret Garden Party festival is set. However, during the festival, a small group of people took a boat out to it and cut the work free.

Artists Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds worked on ‘Is Land’ for six months, at a cost of £9000, before displaying it, and had planned to take it to the Burning Man festival in America, too. But despite warnings being sent out to airports, and various attempts to track it down, it remains lost.

It is now being rebuilt from scratch, funded by donations from the public. You can track their progress here.



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