Nikolay Polissky

Authors: Nikolay Polissky

Location & Date: Moscow, 2005

Size: height 12m, base 10x10m

In the autumn of 2005 a strange-looking object made from intertwined branches appeared in Moscow. The structure was as high as a three-storey house and looked like an enormous, roughly hewn rectangular arch. A geometrical construction consisting of four rectangles joined at the top, this unusual arch symbolized the fact that travellers were entering Moscow’s North-Eastern Administrative District. According to Polissky, the arch could have come into being as the creation of an intelligent raven who, returning to the city after taking a course in construction techniques, decided to build himself this strange and fashionable nest.