Bend it like Echelman

The design for the aerial art installation planned for the St. Petersburg Pier District — a piece that will be created by world-renowned artist Janet Echelman, who lives in Boston but grew up in Tampa — was officially unveiled in late January at Urban Land Institute Tampa Bay’s 2019 Trends Conference.

The $1.3 million sculpture, titled “Bending Arc,” will be 76 feet tall and 428 feet wide when completed in December. To create it, Echelman will use some 84 miles of twine and tie more than 1 million knots.