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Mardi Gras World, New Orleans



These impeccably polished heads are a fraction of a percent of the work that churns out of the largest factory by far for Mardi Gras floats. As soon as the holiday ends, the warehouse is back at work disassembling anything they can reuse and pulling together the rest of the materials they need for the next year. Krewes are submitting designs by April and May so that everything is impeccably finished well in time for February's festival. Designs are flamboyant and colorful, and usually wildly different every year as each Krewe picks a new theme and only reuses a couple of traditional floats.

Into and through the museum

Explore the warehouse



More tiny pieces of floats, including the picture on the wall, each intended to be a tiny ornament on a much larger work. You'll see how big the art can get as you explore my pages. The amazing thing is that all of these parts, small, large, and gigantic, are made of a material similar to Styrofoam (but not copyrighted in name), papier-mâché, and/or a few structural bits as needed.

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