British artist Anish Kapoor designed the Cloud Gate "Bean" in Chicago's sculpture area of Millennium park. Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion and Plensa's Crown Fountain are reflected alongside the world's first skyscrapers. Stainless steel plates were polished to create a perfectly seamless drop of metal. The curved reflection introduces a startling perspective of how the sky meets the city's skyline. The greenery of the park in the city adds a further dimension to a warped reality. Buddhist beliefs of immateriality inspired a theory of ambiguity, and Kapoor implied a tension between masculine and feminine from the concave forms.
The 33x66x42ft structure was completed in 2006 at a cast of $26 million, all from private donations. The impossible-looking finish was achieved in five stages. Welded seams were removed with an electric grinder, weld contours were shaped with a belt sander, weld contours were smoothed with a belt sander, scratches were removed with a double action sander, and then the surface was buffed to a mirror with a large buffing wheel.
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