What Chris Burden gave me

As I’ve mentioned here before, I love love love the work of Chris Burden. This is his latest installation at Rockefeller Center, What My Father Gave Me.

Yes, it is a model of the GE Building, rendered in over a million replicated Erector set parts.

And get this: Chris Burden’s dad was an engineer. So it all makes sense.
More photos, please.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:03 am
[...] My Father Gave Me: Yes, I’m counting Chris Burden’s Erector-set skyscraper as a building! It’s as big as other structures on this list. But I’ll also count the [...]