Giant Whale Covered In Tits Flies Over Australia
Above is the SkyWhale, a hot air balloon sculpture created for the Canberra Centenary in Australia. It's a blue whale that floats through the sky and... is covered with ten gigantic udders. Which I guess is fitting, because whales are mammals, which means they feed their young through milk, but I've never seen a whale with such a rack. Somebody alert Larry Flynt.
Says artist Patricia Piccinii:
The Skywhale may appear fantastic but think about the blue whale – an air breathing mammal that lives in the ocean – and it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. I think that when we look up at the Skywhale and wonder what it is ‘for’, it might remind us that nature is not necessarily ‘for us’. It just ‘is’ and we’re just lucky enough to be around to see it.
The SkyWhale will be touring all of Australia after the Canberra Centenary. No word on whether it'll brave the Pacific and come visit us in the States. I think it would be pretty great to look up in the sky and just see that thing, with no explanation, floating overhead.
