This is a drawing of The Mastaba, soon to be the largest permanent work of art in the world. It will be made from 410,000 multi-coloured barrels to form a mosaic echoing Islamic architecture that will stand in the desert of Liwa, UAE.
The Mastaba was first conceived by artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon) in 1977. They were born on the same day in Bulgaria (Christo) and Morocco (Jeanne-Claude), and got married in Paris in the late 1950s.
Check out some more drawings of The Mastaba below, accompanied by a photo of The London Mastaba, a temporary floating installation that was exhibited in 2018 on The Serpentine in London, UK.
The London Mastaba was made using 7,506 oil barrels.
Here is a picture of Christo and Jeanne-Claude looking for a possible site for The Mastaba in 1982.
After Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009, Christo returned to the proposed site in 2017. Christo passed away in 2020.
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Image source: Wolfgang Volz and André Grossmann of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation (The Mastaba, Christo and Jeanne-claude); David Hawgood (The London Mastaba)