Coachella: What the Hell Is That Giant Flower?
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Coachella-goers arrived to the festival Sunday to find a giant 100 foot tall lotus flower on the grounds near the Gobi tent. Trippy!
The crazy thing was that the flower swooped up and down; half construction crane, half psychedelic creature from another realm. Folks walking by seemed mesmerized, perplexed; the thing had popped up out of nowhere. "It's terrifying" said someone named Jack. "It looks like something from Mario Brothers," said a guy named Alex from L.A. "I keep worrying it is going to eat me." So, what's the deal?
Turns out an L.A.-based art collective called Poetic Kinetics put the thing together, and it wasn't intended to scare the living shit out of folks on drugs. "We hope it will be a nice surprise for people and make people smile," says collective member Cynthia Washburn.![]()
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The flower, which at times extended high into the sky and at other times bent low to stare its observers in the face, is actually a masked articulating boom lift, and was maneuvered by someone using the controls behind its petals. It was contained by a chain-link fence, which doubled as a backrest for patrons of the nearby food tents. As night fell over the festival the flower became illuminated in a white glow as it continued to slowly dance in the middle of the open field.
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Empire Polo Club
81-800 Ave. 51, Indio, CA
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