World's Largest Artwork Stretches 9 Square Miles in the Heart of Icy Siberia

Artist Jim Denevan works on a massive scale. He's "painted" the northern beaches of California, and etched away at the Nevada desert.

His most recent project, however, tops his past works in terms of enormity. The Siberia piece presents beautiful geometric aerial patterns, carved into Denevan's latest canvas: the snow-blanketed frozen surface of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The work is ephemeral, subject to the Earth's elements.

The result is breathtaking.

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