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An aerial view of Wish. Business Insider/Digital Globe

Belfast artwork named one of the top five satellite images of the year

The 11-acre artwork was part of last year’s Belfast Festival and is designed to look to the future.

AN ELEVEN-ACRE artwork in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter has been named one of the planet’s best satellite images.

Wish, by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada is a unique portrait of a young girl, designed to look to the future.

It formed part of the Belfast Festival in October and sat beneath the flight path of George Best City Airport, affording passengers a view of the face.

Digital Globe put Wish in their list of the top 20 images of the year, with public votes taking the Belfast shot beyond such international landmarks as the Great Barrier Reef and the Palace of Versailles and into the last five.

There, it was only beaten by this shot of Mount Vesuvius to the top spot.

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In order to get a scale of how big the UK and Ireland’s largest landscape art project is, the organisers of the festival made this video.

(Belfast Festival/YouTube)

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