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Nov 14, 2008 12:05 pm US/Eastern

Giant Tree Elevates Cruise Ship To New Heights

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ― A spectacular new display, created by a team of South Florida artists, is defying gravity in a very unlikely place; on board the newest luxury cruise ship from Celebrity Cruise Lines. The display is a five thousand pound tree suspended sixty feet in the air.

The tree has healthy green leaves and lots of branches and planted in a red object that resembles a vase. The impressive sized tree is suspended 5 stories in the air, in the entrance of the new Celebrity Solstice, currently docked at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.

"It was absolutely amazing," said Nancy Elm to CBS4's Jorge Estevez.

The creators are a team of local artists who live on Miami Beach. Alberto Latorre is the architect on the project. Carlos Betancourt is the artist on the project.

"These things I am exploring now is pretty much three dimensional on canvas," said Carlos Betancourt. The tree is just part of the 6 million dollars of art on board, curated by International Corporate Art. The 3-D tree took a team of 20 more than 5 days to install.

"This one was bit different because it had to be suspended in the middle of the ship," said Alberto Latorre. A perfect match for a ship that even has real grass on deck.

"It's the concept of the earth and the environment that we need to know about today," said Nancy Elm, a passenger on board.

And the artist agrees. Betancourt's goal is to use the tree to show the relationship between man, nature, and the environment.

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