It is on free view to all, consistent with the artist’s dream to make art free to everyone. ![]() The trapezoidal vertical ends are coloured in a mosaic of red, blue and mauve, whilst the sloping rectangular sides are red with bands of white. It sits on a floating platform anchored to the lake-bed, is 20 metres high and weighs 600 tonnes. It is made using 7,506 plastic barrels, and is in the form of a mastaba, an ancient Egyptian tomb with a flat roof and inward sloping sides. ![]() What I saw on the lake was The Mastaba, a temporary floating installation, unveiled in June 2018 and due to be deconstructed next week. More specifically, the cross-section is an isosceles trapezoid having angles equal in pairs: since it was constructed from cylindrical barrels of equal size, the ends have a honeycomb pattern and the sides slope upwards at an angle of 60 degrees to the horizontal. The structure on the lake has a horizontal axis, with trapezoidal cross-section and rectangular sides. It has an axis, with all cross-sections perpendicular to this axis being identical. Changing perspective on approach to the MastabaĪ prism is a polyhedron with a polygonal base. ![]() On closer approach, and with a changing angle of view, it became clear that it was prismatic in shape, composed of numerous barrels in red, blue and purple. Walking in Hyde Park recently, I spied what appeared to be a huge red pyramid in the middle of the Serpentine.
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