aaaand another one i just stumbled across and know nothing about - crawick multiverse - this looks pretty mad. charles jencks' last completed land art project apparently. from the photo at https://www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk/ there seems to be stone rows and circles plus more. paid entry :(
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Jencks carved a wide and fat path across Scotland's former industrial heartlands, scooping up massive Public Art Commissions. He sometimes teamed-up with those annoying "new-style" companies whose names betray nothing about what they do, who is behind them or their actual purpose (eg. Carillion). These faceless companies seemed to appear out of nowhere and attracted massive government contracts for huge infrastructure projects. Jencks wasn't slow to hoover-up the commissions and the assistance of corporations and construction companies with lots of earth-moving equipment.
Kelty in Fife.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-the-scottish-world
Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-ueda
Jupiter Artland in West Lothian.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-jupiter-artland
Then the Crawick Multiverse at Sanquar/ Kirkonnel.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-crawick-multiverse
The Rail Garden of Scottish Worthies at Dumfries.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-scottish-worthies
Then Dumfries bought itself a Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation
Even a Maggie's Centre in Glasgow found itself drawn into Jencks' Charlie-Dimmock-finds-a-Spirograph-on-aceed nightmare.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-maggie-s-glasgow
A hospital in Dumfries found itself unable to escape Mr Jencks and his Plant Hire Company friends.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-doublewalk
Even where the Sark rins ower the Solway sands.... Jencks found a final commission in Scotland before he crossed the border and headed South.
https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-gretna-landmark
There are probably more Jencks-Dimmock-Aceedscapes here in Scotland but I simply couldn't face looking.
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'Whether you are interested in cosmology, science, art or just want to walk your dog', brilliant, that's full on barking mad 😀
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stolinskie wrote:
aaaand another one i just stumbled across and know nothing about - crawick multiverse - this looks pretty mad. charles jencks' last completed land art project apparently. from the photo at https://www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk/ there seems to be stone rows and circles plus more. paid entry :(
We went to the Multiverse last May whilst visiting Dumfries and Galloway. The site is monumental in scale and well worth a visit. A great example of what can be done with an abandoned coal mine rather than yet another Amazon distribution shed.
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