Many thousands of years hence, archaeologists may wonder what on earth the ancients were up to in a North-Eastern corner of the European sub-province once known as England.
What had driven them, in the latter stages of the Oil Age,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings, to create the largest replica of the human body ever seen on Earth — a reclining female figure a quarter of a mile long and weighing 1.5 million tons.
Was she a burial mound or a deity? Was she supposed to send messages to other planets? Or was she simply a monument to the obesity of 21st century England? Perhaps they will even stumble across the truth — that she was none of the above.
An artists impression of the Final design of the huge sculpture that garden desiigner and artist Charles Jencks is to draw into the land near the Blagdon Estate
An artists impression of the Final design of the huge sculpture that garden designer and artist Charles Jencks is to draw into the land near the Blagdon Estate
In fact,Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding, she turns out to be a collaboration between, an international landscape artist,Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist an unusual aristocrat and a mining firm.
When this earth sculpture, Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, she will be so big that the best place to take in her gargantuan proportions will be from a plane. Drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear.
But everyone will be able to walk all over her, via a four-mile network of paths along the curves of her body to various strategic viewing platforms on her face, breasts, hip, knee and ankle.
To her designer, Charles Jencks, she is a 'gateway' and an 'abstraction', while her progenitor, the Honourable Matthew Ridley — journalist squire of Blagdon Hall and 10,000 acres hereabouts — calls her 'a new green public open space'.
When this earth sculpture, Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear
When this earth sculpture,Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear
To the Banks Group, the mining company digging 5.4 million tons of coal from Ridley's estate, she is an efficient and original use of the leftovers from their excavations.
But, needless to say, local Geordies have produced a few alternatives.
The mysterious lady is already, variously, known as Slag Alice, Fat Slag (after a character in the Geordie comic Viz), Big Bird and the Goddess Of The North. There will be many more.
But as I stand, more than 100ft up on what will be Northumberlandia's face, staring at the North Sea, wild hills and Tyneside, she seems an ingenious addition to the landscape.
This entire region is defined by colossal man-made projects — Hadrian's Wall, baronial castles, coal mines, shipyards and, latterly, the Angel Of The North.
What had driven them, in the latter stages of the Oil Age,Save on hydraulic hose and fittings, to create the largest replica of the human body ever seen on Earth — a reclining female figure a quarter of a mile long and weighing 1.5 million tons.
Was she a burial mound or a deity? Was she supposed to send messages to other planets? Or was she simply a monument to the obesity of 21st century England? Perhaps they will even stumble across the truth — that she was none of the above.
An artists impression of the Final design of the huge sculpture that garden desiigner and artist Charles Jencks is to draw into the land near the Blagdon Estate
An artists impression of the Final design of the huge sculpture that garden designer and artist Charles Jencks is to draw into the land near the Blagdon Estate
In fact,Choose from one of the major categories of Bedding, she turns out to be a collaboration between, an international landscape artist,Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop.Our Polymax RUBBER SHEET range includes all commercial and specialist an unusual aristocrat and a mining firm.
When this earth sculpture, Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, she will be so big that the best place to take in her gargantuan proportions will be from a plane. Drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear.
But everyone will be able to walk all over her, via a four-mile network of paths along the curves of her body to various strategic viewing platforms on her face, breasts, hip, knee and ankle.
To her designer, Charles Jencks, she is a 'gateway' and an 'abstraction', while her progenitor, the Honourable Matthew Ridley — journalist squire of Blagdon Hall and 10,000 acres hereabouts — calls her 'a new green public open space'.
When this earth sculpture, Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear
When this earth sculpture,Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. Northumberlandia, opens to the public in 2013, drivers on the A1 will get a good view of her head, and rail passengers on the London-to-Edinburgh line will have a generous eyeful of her rear
To the Banks Group, the mining company digging 5.4 million tons of coal from Ridley's estate, she is an efficient and original use of the leftovers from their excavations.
But, needless to say, local Geordies have produced a few alternatives.
The mysterious lady is already, variously, known as Slag Alice, Fat Slag (after a character in the Geordie comic Viz), Big Bird and the Goddess Of The North. There will be many more.
But as I stand, more than 100ft up on what will be Northumberlandia's face, staring at the North Sea, wild hills and Tyneside, she seems an ingenious addition to the landscape.
This entire region is defined by colossal man-made projects — Hadrian's Wall, baronial castles, coal mines, shipyards and, latterly, the Angel Of The North.
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