In our quest to seek out the biggest public
sculptures in the world we have finally hit the mother lode. It’s a land work
in the UK depicting a woman so big it would take a very long time to walk right
round her. From the air, from the ground, what ever way you look at it, the
work is big. Big head, big arms, big legs and big all the other bits. You want
statistics, here are statistics. 34 meters high, 400 meters long (top to tail
measurement) and 1.5 million tonnes of earth (actually it’s not earth so much
as slag tailings from a nearby coal mining operation that had to be cleaned up).
The whole deal is the work of Charles Jenks, the American architectural
theorist and landscape architect. It’s due to be finished next year.
