New Hampshire domino artist Lily Hevesh builds a domino formation while posing for a portrait for her Destination Domino special exhibition at the National Building Museum on July 13, 2024. After 25 hours over eight days, the time had come for Lily Hevesh to topple 15,000 dominoes. With a soft flick of her finger, Hevesh stood bac.
.. She’s spent 10 days painstakingly constructing her art installation - and now she’s about to destroy it with the flick of a finger.
On Saturday, D.C.’s National Building Museum will see 100,000 dominoes topple in a colorful feat of engineering.
The installation - made with sleek, straight-edged neon tiles built for knocking down rather than the traditional dotted kind - features elaborate field constructions and rarer domino “tricks,” such as giant collapsing walls and fragile domino towers, all connected by a fluid chain of evenly spaced slabs. The chain reaction of metronomic tck-tck-tcks is expected to last eight full minutes and promises to be supremely satisfying. The mastermind behind it is Lily Hevesh, a 25-year-old domino artist and artist-in-residence at the museum, who has garnered fame in the international domino community and beyond for her massive, inventive creations.
She and her team of nine international builders have crafted the 50-by-50-foot trail with the ultimate goal of having it crash down in carefully calibrated chaos for the exhibit’s grand finale. “When you see the effects that the dominoes are creating by h.