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Monster Art
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Last year, giant tentacles burst out of a two-story warehouse in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. But the colorful limbs weren’t from a huge ocean creature. They were part of Sea Monsters HERE, an art installation designed by United Kingdom-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas. The inflatable sculpture was the largest ever created by the duo, who have been building these projects since 1996. The purple-and-blue tentacles ranged from 32 to 40 feet in length and curled upward to reveal green suckers on the underside.
“These types of geometric designs are driven by numbers and proportions, which makes them very mathematical in appearance,” says Estrellas.
Sea Monsters HERE featured 20 tentacles. Each tentacle had an average of 40 suckers. About how many suckers were used in the entire project? Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.
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