{"id":587,"date":"2014-03-21T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/2014\/03\/21\/art-and-engineering-a-collaboration-with-one-of-the-worlds-foremost-sculpture-artists\/"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:49:06","slug":"art-and-engineering-a-collaboration-with-one-of-the-worlds-foremost-sculpture-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/art-and-engineering-a-collaboration-with-one-of-the-worlds-foremost-sculpture-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Engineering: A Collaboration with One of the World&#8217;s Foremost Sculpture Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">How does an artist take a million feet of fiber, some powerful technology, structural engineers and crane trucks to make her vision become reality? &#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Janet Echelman, a sculpture artist who develops netted works that move in the wind, installed her incredible work&#160;<\/span>&quot;Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks\u201d on Vancouver\u2019s waterfront this week. &#160;<\/p>\n<p>On view through March 22, the piece is at a scale never before attempted by Echelman. 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