Boston Gets A Rainbow Spiderweb
The untitled piece hangs above the Rose Kennedy Greenway and was made by local artist Janet Echelman. Though it appears lightweight, the 600-foot-wide entanglement weighs 2,000 pounds and required 100 miles of rope and a half-million knots. The thing is so massive there were actually official conversations about it maybe snaring birds. The Greenway folks concluded the “bottom line is that birds avoid it since they see it similar to a forest or cluster of trees—it reads as a solid mass.”
