The Floating Piers, Project for Lake Iseo, Italy – San Paolo, 2017

For this edition, Christo chose to bring into focus the part of The Floating Piers leading up to the island of San Paolo. He created this collage the year after he had finally realized The Floating Piers project on Lake Iseo in Italy – having first conceived it in 1970. For just over 2 weeks, 100,000 square meters (1 million square feet) of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 polyethylene cubes, undulated with the movement of the waves as The Floating Piers rose just above the water's surface. "Those who experienced The Floating Piers felt like they were walking on water – or perhaps the back of a whale," said Christo. "The light and water transformed the bright yellow fabric to shades of red and gold throughout the sixteen days."