With
its shimmering walls of water and cool silver palette, la prairie spa is a refreshing oasis that offers a tranquil respite from the Caribbean sun.
Not exact matches
It looks like a floating but structured mixture
of oil and
water,
shimmering in purple, blue, and yellow, standing like a
wall between our own reality and the unknown.
Reproductions
of Monet's gardens at Giverny blanket one
wall: thousands
of violets - smudges
of purples and mauves - and azaleas, poppies, and peonies, tulips and roses,
water lilies in pastel pinks floating on serene lakes reflecting weeping willows and
shimmers of sunshine.
Accessed by the Pont Marengo bridge, jutting out over the
shimmering waters of the Canal du Midi, historically, Carcassonne was the first fortress to adopt a «hoardings» system
of defence in times
of siege, wooden structures were fitted to the upper reaches
of the ramparts so that the castle's defenders had extra protection whilst they could lean over the
walls and drop rocks, hot tar and other projectiles on the assailants below.
The three paintings were sold separately to the Cleveland Museum
of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Nelson - Atkins Museum
of Art in Kansas City and have been reunited here to form an immersive 42ft
wall of shimmering water lilies.
Acrylic bands
of blue and white curving out from the
wall represent
water in motion; glass beads covering a dune - shaped form create the
shimmering effect
of light on sand; hundreds
of acrylic cubes in varying hues
of violet are points
of color that capture the light or atmospheric condition
of a particular moment.