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Figures in a landscape

Figures in a landscape
Anthony Gormley sculptures of indigenous figures on salt lake (Lake Ballard). Desert Western Australia. 200km to nearest town.
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 Amilis
Amilis
bel espace ! *-*
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Amilis
Merci Amilis.
12 years ago.
 Eve
Eve
Insolite dans cette immensité désertique ...
Au loin est ce aussi des sculptures ?
Amts Diana
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Eve
Oui...il y a plusieurs sculptures autour de ce geant lac de sel......au milieu du desert...la ville plus proche est a 200km! Oui...insolite!! Meri Eve
12 years ago.
 'ºLº'
'ºLº'
Poignant loneliness of the life-size figure on the sand..

Antony Gormley is famous for his " Angel of the North" a huge sculpture that stands on a hill in North East England. I did not know he had worked in Australia .
I have found the story if it is of interest :
" In 2002, Antony Gormley approached the residents of Menzies and asked if he could scan them digitally, completely naked. Fifty-one of them agreed, and Gormley set about transforming them. First he squeezed them by two-thirds in width, then he cast them into moulds, and out popped 51 eerie extraterrestrial figures that are now scattered across the flat, white expanse of the nearby barren salt lake, Lake Ballard. 'I wanted to try to find the human equivalent for this geological place,' says Gormley. 'I think human memory is part of place, and place is a dimension of human memory.'

A sight that must linger in the memory :-)
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to 'ºLº'
Thank you for doing the research...I knew some of the tale but not all. I would like to have gone closer for a better look, but there had been a little rain, and by the time I was close enough to take this, I was about 10 cm taller on an increasingly growing "sole" of slippery, yet incredibly dense red mud. It was very hazardous.....
They looked haunted and spectral in that remote landscape...:-)
12 years ago.
 Simone Maurel
Simone Maurel club
insolite mais beaucoup de charme...
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Simone Maurel club
Merci à toi, Simone
12 years ago.
 Love Song
Love Song club
Genial *_* J*************************************************
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Love Song club
Thankssssssss!
12 years ago.
 mARTin Piché
mARTin Piché
Une rencontre qui étonne :-)
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to mARTin Piché
Oui...insolite!.....merci mARTin
12 years ago.
 Aixa
Aixa
Impressionante***********
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Aixa
Gracias mi Amiga....
12 years ago.
 ypell
ypell
Une vision artistique peu commune dans cet ensemble d'oeuvres.
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to ypell
merci de ce commentaire, Ypell
12 years ago.
 .t.a.o.n.
.t.a.o.n.
for some a fata morgana... ;-)
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to .t.a.o.n.
That's a fantastic way to put it....;-)
12 years ago.
 Eve
Eve
Très insolite ....***
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Eve
Oui......absolument....étonnant....
12 years ago.
 Patrick Berty
Patrick Berty
Des lieux invivables mais tellement beaux, superbe nature !!
4 years ago.

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