What is half the size of the 340-ton rock at the heart of Michael Heizer’s sculpture "Levitated Mass," with almost none of the mass? L.A. artist Mungo Thomson has created a helium balloon version of the soon-to-open LACMA attraction, which will drift over Aspen's Main Street this Fourth of July as the official float of the Aspen Art Museum.
Heizer’s rock traveled this past March on a custom-designed transporter at speeds up to eight miles an hour to complete its 11-night, 105-mile journey to the L.A. museum. Thomson’s balloon-rock, attached to ropes held by parade participants, is expected to travel at speeds of about two miles an hour to complete its journey in an hour or so the afternoon of July 4.
