That’s right. Yamamoto turned the whole messy salt pile into an incredible and intricate maze:
He made it—as he makes all these installations—by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he’s already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt.
Amazing, no? Now can someone please hand me a few pieces of chalk and give me a week or so? I want to solve this thing. [Co.Design]
Nicholas
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:52 AMLooks like a ton of hard work there.
Ash
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:29 PMAhh I see what you did there…. and I like your work
Roland
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:56 AMand who wakes up in the morning thinking… Yeah I’m going to make this today…
at
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:18 PMa-maze-ing!
Kalem
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 2:18 PMThis take my childhood fun of frustrating slugs to new levels.
Jessica Rabbit
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 2:28 PMNobody turn the fan on! :O
Ash
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 3:44 PMHow pointless. He cant eat it, sell it, play with it. The only thing he can do is really photograph it. Great use for so much salt and time
pan.sapiens
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7:32 PMYeah, there is a name for “pointless” stuff like this. I believe the word is “art”.
Richard
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 8:58 PMI’d love for someone to take a high res picture of it so we cn preserve it and so we all can have a go at solving it
Fantastic work
Pork Chop
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 1:09 AMIt’s made of salt, it will preserve itself.
Brendan
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 9:43 PMI’d like to see him create the same thing out of freshly ground pepper! Aaaachew! “Oh were did the last 5 days worth off work just go?”
Jonboy
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:27 PMNice art.