Charles Pétillon Fills London's Covent Garden With a Cloud of 100,000 Balloons

French artist Charles Pétillon recently filled London's historical Covent Garden market building with a cloud of 100,000 balloons. Launched in anticipation of the upcoming London Design Festival, the "Heartbeat" installation is the artist's first public piece of work, which also includes soft pulses of white light that is meant to represent the district's lively history. Pétillon elaborates, "The balloon invasions I create are metaphors, their goal is to change the way in which see the things ...