Blanketing the Mountains

Peter Klaunzer/EPA

Christo would be impressed. Rarely have I seen something that so accurately illustrates the George Bernard Shaw quote "You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" For the second time, two brothers aided by Swiss artists have created an interactive art installation they're calling Bignik ~ 160,000 square feet of patchwork cloth spread out over a mountain that became the scene of a monumental picnic: http://www.cultivatingculture.com/2014/07/09/bignik-picnic-dreams-made/