For the next two weekends, prepare yourself for a cascade of photos, videos, and gratuitous selfies from the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which takes place in Indio, California from April 14 to 16 and April 21 to 23.
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This year's festival is adorned with whimsical art installations, including the acre-spanning "Chiaozza Garden" featuring pastel colors and high-key fluorescents by Brooklyn-based artists Terri Chiao and Adam Freeza, who are collectively known as Chiaozza (pronounced "wowza").
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Then there's Olalekan Jeyifous' "Crown Ether," a community on trunk-like pillars that "seeks to reconcile space and its displacement." Apart from its awe-inspiring build, which was inspired by Jeyifous' early years in Nigeria, the massive tree also serves as a communal area for people to seek shade.
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One of this year's popular selfie pitstop is the "Lamp Beside the Golden Door," a lighthouse piece by Brazilian artist Gustavo Prado who arranged thousands of rounded mirrors at concurrent-yet-separated angles to create a tower from light-catching fragments. Per Coachella, the sculpture "materializes how the mind turns the continuous interconnectedness of phenomena into separate beings."
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Lastly, there's the physical elephant in the room: a towering installation called "Is This What Brings Things Into Focus?" which is a herd of horned-figures that rises up to six stories (75 feet). Made by UK-based artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan, the sculptures are not meant to be any particular animals despite its lumbering size and vaguely mammalian forms.
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