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It represents Echelman’s largest permanent artwork to date in a portfolio that includes huge pieces in San Francisco, West Hollywood, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Porto, Portugal and elsewhere. In the commercial there was a brother and sister playing with it and the little girls calls mickey and says 'Mickey come over for a party, you call Donald Duck' then the boy says 'Donald, come on over' then the girl says 'Hi Goofy'. The hypnotically immersive “Bending Arc” - 76 feet at its highest point and 428 feet at its widest - required 84 miles of twine and more than a million knots. You selected a picture of Goofy or Donald Duck for example, then you would call him and he would 'talk' to you. They are revered for their ability to move and shape-shift in response to their natural surroundings. The Guggenheim Fellow’s works of art meet at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, urban design and engineering, and are often on the scale of buildings and city blocks. Janet Echelman, who grew up in Tampa and was educated at Harvard, has several of her billowing net sculptures in prominent places around the world, including one in Seattle commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The artist titled the sculpture Bending Arc in reference to MLK’s words: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “Bending Arc” measures a massive 76 feet at its highest point and 428 feet at its widest and is perpetually in motion with the wind. Internationally renowned artist and Tampa Bay native Janet Echelman has created one of her famous billowing net sculptures to dazzle Pier visitors. At around 5.15pm that evening, a number of pilots and boatmen standing outside the watch-house on Swansea pier saw a man walking hand-in-hand with a little girl onto the pier.