Meet the supine, the Lady of the
North the former coal mining town of “Cramlington, Northumberland”, North East
England, is a massive piece of land art in the shape of reclining lady named “Northumberlandia”.
The lady is more than a hundred feet tall at her tallest point, her forehead, and
a quarter of a mile long. The Woman lies on her back, with her long hairs
spread out, upper body in supine position and her lower torso twisted towards
her left, as it looks like that she is dancing. It is created by American
landscape architect and designer Charles Jencks, “Northumberlandia” is said to
be largest human landform sculpture in the world. It is officially opened by a
woman “Princess Anne” in September 2015, it has become an apparent hit, with
25,000 visitors in its first few weeks.
Hence, “Northumberlandia” was shaped
from the by-products of an opencast mine in “Shotton” well owned by Banks Group
and Blagdon Estates. Whereas digging for coal the employers feels that there
was a fabulous opportunity to imaginatively reuse all the rocks and dirt dug
out of the ground in its place of dumping them into bland hills. Therefore, they
contacted famous artist “Charles Jencks” to see what could be done and
Northumberlandia was born.
However, it took Charles Jencks 2
years to build and shape her shapely figure and bodily limbs out of 1.5m tonnes
of rock, clay and soil redundant from the mine. Therefore, her core is made of
rocks, layered over with clay and topped with soil over which an excellent
grass grows now. Moreover, some of her features are beautifully artistically
highlighted with stone from the mine that is frequently used for the
restoration of old buildings. Thus, the figure provides a series of resting and
viewing platforms, the uppermost on the forehead, from which you can get a view
of the open cast mine from where she came.
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