"Big Bambu"

We finally made it to the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art) to see the "Big Bambu" (that's what they call this art installation) on the Roof. During the Summer Doug & Mike Starn were building a bamboo castle. It is constructed of tons of Bamboo & Bungie-Cords. 
We have been talking about going to see it before its over. We miss things in this city quite often, we always say to each other "We still have time to see or do it ". But by the time we get ourselves together for it we notice it has finished.  As I said in the beginning, this time we did not miss it. We made it for the final weekend. 
If we had planned more carefully, we could have waited in line to get tickets for a guided tour so that we could climb up into that monstrous structure.
It was a quite a sight. A 50-foot-high installation of woven bamboo rising from the roof garden of MET. As soon as we got off the elevator we saw the columns of bamboo stuck on the granite floor. We immediately wanted to walk into this bamboo jungle to see how it was created. We found that many of the bamboo columns were not even touching the ground. We worried how strong the structure was. Then as we looked up, we saw people walking on catwalks 40 feet above us. I guess our worries were unnecessary.   We saw many different colors of Bungie Cords wrapped around bamboo criss crossings everywhere.  No nails were used to create this bamboo castle. It was growing up to the sky.

The pathways made of bamboo were  almost like the village stage set for second act of Met Opera's production of "Turandot". I thought it was good thing we did not get tickets to climb this treacherous looking pathway. We were fine just walking thought this maze of a bamboo forest. Although the view of Manhattan from the highest castle path would be fantastic,  I was quite happy not to scale that massive amount of bamboo.

The view of Manhattan from under the bamboo castle was a quite a sight. Bamboo poles were sticking out into the sky. The Manhattan skyline was nothing like I've seen before.
Here are some pictures we snapped at the site. If you missed it, at least you can see what I saw this final weekend of October.
By the way,Central Park is starting to change its colors. There were dabs of colors here and there throughout the Park.  My favorite season in the city. The New York Marathon Runners will be seeing trees of many different colors as they approach the finish line next weekend.  I might go up there to cheer them on !