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Crawick Multiverse

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Artist
  
Charles Jencks

Created
  
21 June 2015

Address
  
Sanquhar DG4 6ET, UK

Crawick Multiverse

Similar
  
Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Drumlanrig Castle, Northumberlandia, Museum of Lead Mining, Jupiter Artland

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Crawick multiverse


Crawick Multiverse is a land art project by the landscape architect and designer Charles Jencks near Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway. It opens to the public on June 21, 2015. The project is located on the site of a former open cast coal mine and covers approximately 55 acres, making it the largest of Jencks' works in Britain. Nine 'landforms' make up the Crawick Multiverse. Like Jencks' other work, including the nearby Garden of Cosmic Speculation, these represent ideas from modern cosmology. Unlike the Garden of Cosmic speculation, the Crawick Multiverse landforms use stone, in the style of the megalithic monuments. These include the 'North-South Path', a 400 meter long stone avenue flanked by over 300 boulders, and two stone circles on top of mounds representing the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. In total, over 2000 boulders have been used in the project. Jencks has described it as "A cosmic landscape worthy of the ancients."

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Crawick Multiverse Wikipedia