Art From Above

Making art that is best viewed from a distance is nothing new. But, when the Nasca etched giant images

of birds and lizards and spirals into the Peruvian desert around 100 B.C. they probably weren’t thinking about Google Earth. (Check out Nasca Lines: The Buried Secrets this Thursday, March 4th at 6 p.m. the National Geographic Channel, as well as an article in the March issue of the National Geographic Magazine.) On the other hand, artist Molly Dilworth is making rooftop paintings intended specifically for Google Earth. She calls her work Paintings for Satellites.

— Benjamin Shaw

[via Gizmodo via Inhabitat]
[Visiting Peru’s Mysterious Nasca Lines]