Billboards Covered With Photos of the Beautiful Vistas They're Blocking

Jennifer Bolande has created a series of billboards that perfectly line up with the mountain views they block on a highway in Palm Springs, California.

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March 22, 2017, 5:00 AM PDT

By Casey Brazeal @northandclark


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An art instillation called DesertX seeks to restore some beauty to a stretch of southern California highway by putting up photos of the mountains on the billboards that hide them.  "Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted," the project's website says.

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