Tapis Volant: Wang Du's Shuttle-themed art

Boing Boing pal Michael Nank says,

I recently saw a couple of pretty cool exhibits at the Vancouver Art Gallery, including a show of work by an artist named Wang Du.

One of his pieces — Tapis Volant — had some relevancy given that the shuttle was landing that weekend. Tapis Volant is a huge "flying carpet" which features the Feb 10th cover of Time Magazine, the one with the picture of Space Shuttle Columbia's fateful return to Earth. The image is about half way down on this link. You can get a sense of scale if you look to the upper right hand corner, where you see a couple of people walking next to it.

Previously on Boing Boing: Wang Du's Mixed Media