Crawick Multiverse is a land art project by the landscape architect and designer Charles Jencks near Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway. It opened to the public on 21 June 2015.[1] The project is located on the site of a former open cast coal mine and covers approximately 55 acres,[2] making it the largest of Jencks's works in Britain.[3] Nine 'landforms' make up the Crawick Multiverse. Like Jencks's other work, including the nearby Garden of Cosmic Speculation, these represent ideas from modern cosmology.[4] Unlike the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, the Crawick Multiverse landforms use stone, in the style of the megalithic monuments. These include the 'North-South Line', a 400 meter long stone avenue flanked by over 300 boulders,[2] and two stone circles on top of mounds representing the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.[5] In total, over 2000 boulders have been used in the project.[2] Jencks has described it as "A cosmic landscape worthy of the ancients."[4]
- ^ Crawick Multiverse press release, and subsequent news reports: "New £1m Scottish 'Multiverse' artland is out of this world". Crawick Multiverse. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- "Charles Jencks Crawick coal mine art project nears completion". BBC. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- Miller, Phil (30 April 2015). "Jencks unveils his new Multiverse of 2000 boulders in Dumfries and Galloway". heraldscotland. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ a b c "About Crawick". Crawick Multiverse. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ Wade, Mike (30 April 2015). "Old coal mine has cosmic facelift". The Times (London). Northumberlandia, by comparison, covers 47 acres.
- ^ a b "Home". Crawick Multiverse. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ "Two Galaxy Mounds – Andromeda and The Milky Way". Crawick Multiverse. Retrieved 25 April 2015.