Liquid Marble Installation by Mathieu Lehanneur

Paris-based designer Mathieu Lehanneur created a liquid marble surface installation titled “Petite Loire” for the international garden festival at Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire Centre d’Arts et de Nature in France. It is a freeze-frame, the river’s perpetual movement caught in a frozen, fossilized moment. A few dozen metres above the river’s natural level, Petite Loire cuts cleanly through the garden’s surface, delving into the soil to reveal a fluvial relief, both vertiginous and practicable, in dark marble.