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Part of the Life Mounds by Charles Jencks.
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There is something Neolithic about the Life Mounds as you enter the park at Jupiter Artland. The eight man-made hills have been shaped by the distinguished American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer, Charles Jencks.
Landform, by American artist Charles Jencks (1939 - 2019), was created on the lawn of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's Modern One building in Edinburgh. The work is a combination of sculpture, garden and land art. The shapes are inspired by nature, where they can be seen in waves, clouds and geological formations. Landform won the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year, 2004.
Parco del Portello
Progettualmente, il parco vuole costituire una continuità, anche storica, con quello della Montagnetta di San Siro: come quella le due collinette, assai più piccole, sono state costruite con macerie e terra di scavo e ad essa sono collegate da una passerella. Dei due rilievi, uno ad andamento a doppia esse e in una della concavità ospita un laghetto, un'oasi al riparo dai rumori, l'altra ("Helix") è conica e percorsa da un doppio tracciato a spirale, uno a salire e l'altro a scendere senza incrociarsi: sulla sommità ospita una scultura per ora coperta. La terza parte è un giardino pensato soprattutto per i degenti dell'attiguo Istituto Palazzolo. L'intero parco sorge su un terrapieno di dieci metri d'altezza ottenuto con la costruzione di appositi muri di contenimento.
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I was the only person for as far as the eye could see looking Westward from the highest peak of the abandoned Fife Earth Project.
View from the mysterious hidden top of the unfinished Fife Earth Project designed by Charles Jencks that has been halted due to lack of funding.This was once the site of the old Lassodie mining village with a population at one time of around 1400 inhabitants that was turned inside out with open cast coal excavation.
It is a hidden gem with so much potential for a vast and unique wildlife and leisure haven in Scotland and Europe.
Crawick Multiverse
Yesterday we were at the launch event for the Crawick Multiverse land art project near Sanquhar by Charles Jencks. Without knowing quite what to expect, all I can really say that this is one very special place. It has stunning landscape art, with standing stones, stone circles, spirals, stone avenues, tombs etc.. The launch event had a mixture of music and performing artists as well as a small firework display to close the day off.
This is a place I will be returning to time and time again over the seasons
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From the top of the man made mound at the former site of the St Ninians open cast mine near Dunfermline, Fife.This is just a part of the abandoned Fife Earth Project that you get a glimpse of on your left hand side as you travel up the M90 Motorway approaching the Kelty slip road.
Last remnants of the day slowly fading behind Knockhill in Fife.
Taken from the top of the Fife Earth Project mound where the old mining village of Lassodie use to be.
Pedestrians on the ground of "Landform Ueda" by Charles Jencks at the Modern Art Gallery, a combination of artwork, garden and social space.
60056 heads 6S36, the 0832 Dalston - Grangemouth tanks, diverted over the G&SW route on 3 February 2016. This picture is taken from one of a group of former colliery spoil heaps or "Bings" as they are known in Scotland.
Unlike most spoil heaps the Gateside Bings - located either side of the G&SW railway between Sanquhar and Kirkconnel, were retained as part of the the areas industrial heritage. The horizon - dusted with snow - is formed by the Lowther Hills. Immediately below those hills - on the left of the picture - several strange conical mounds can be seen, on and below the escarpment that was formed by opencast mining. This is part of an ongoing land art project; "The Crawick Multiverse" by American landscape architect and artist Charles Jencks, the Gateside Bings are seen as an integral element of the project.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (One) boasts this very unusual sculpture to a design by Charles Jencks. Extensive parklands also include sculpture by such artists as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, George Rickey, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Long and Nathan Coley.
'Landform' comprises a stepped, serpentine mound reflected in three crescent-shaped pools of water.
Cosmic House was the home of architect Charles Jencks.
and now run by the Jencks Foundation.
Charles Jencks and architect Terry Farrell and others built the house in the Post-Modern style.
Jencks' was interested in symbols and signs as a result he designed the "Jencksiana" a motif that is used in many forms within the house - the shape of windows and on the back of chairs for example.
Window showing the spiral stairs encompasses the Jenksiana motif.
Rising in stepped ramps sheathed in emerald green turf, and clustered around swirling ponds, Cells of Life is a landform by Charles Jencks that celebrates the cell, the basic unit of life.
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland..
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The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It is probably unique among gardens, drawing comparisons with a similarly abstract garden in Scotland, Little Sparta..
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The garden is private but usually opens on one day each year through Scotland's Gardens Scheme and raises money for Maggie's Centres, a cancer care charity named for Maggie Keswick Jencks, the late wife of Charles Jencks.
Dancers from Kataklo at a press photocall held in the grounds of the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh this morning.
Their new show is called 'Love Machines' and is inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
My thanks are due to Daniela Bogo from Kataklo for inviting me along.
You can see my other shots of this group (who I also photographed in 2006) in my Kataklo set.
The show is on at the Assembly Rooms at 17:05 until August 31st and you can buy ticketes here: www.assemblyfestival.com/webpages/whatson_moreinfobooknow...
This rather tatty type 165DS Ruston was once in pristine condition when cosmetically restored as a feature in the Cosmic Gardens of Speculation at Portrack House. The property is located on the south bank of the River Nith north of Holywood village. Ruston Wks no. 418790/1958 was delivered here by road in February 2004 after the new Portrack Viaduct across the River Nith on the G&SW line had been commissioned between Christmas 2003 and New Year 2004. The locomotive stands on the former down line track a small length of which was retained from where the line was slewed across. The rest of the trackbed through to the river bank where the first span of the old plate girder viaduct still stands has been landscaped as part of the "Portrack Scottie Garden of Rails" commemorating numerous engineers with stencil signs. Although the loco is readily visible from passing trains its almost impossible to get a decent photo of as its hemmed in between trees and palisade fencing.
Portrack House was the home of the late American landscape designer Charles Jencks who died in October 2019. There used to be one public open day here on the Sunday of the May Day bank holiday weekend but whether that will still take place following his death remains to be seen.
This 0-4-0DM Ruston started its working life with the NCB Coal Products Division and was first allocated to Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Disposal Point in South Wales. It was bought by Mr Jencks from the Shropshire Locomotive collection in late 2003.
Reflection in the pool of Charles Jencks sculpture "Landform" outside the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art.
This galvanized steel sculpture of the DNA double helix graces the courtyard of the Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In addition to being an educational facility, Britain's National Health Service also carries out genetic testing and research here, so there's a connection with genetics. Additionally, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, James Watson, is the Centre's patron.
It's not 100% apparent in this view but this is a double helix. The span isn't long enough, however, to see both a major and minor groove.
Cascading Universe & Garden of Cosmic Speculation, 2 of the gardens at Portrack House near Dumfries. The house features garden designs by Charles Jencks. The house is only open to the public on one day a year.
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Land art project near Sanquhar in Dumfries-shire making use of the site of a former open cast coal mine. Designed by Charles Jencks.
Posts at Portrack Gardens, again trying some new styles and techniques.
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If you've visited Edinburgh's Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art these will look familiar. The divine curves and pools of a Charles Jencks landform is unmistakable.
Just to prove that it was a nice day on my birthday. :) See my original monochrome version.
The 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 in 2015.
This major land restoration project has transformed a former open cast coal mine into a spectacular artland and public amenity. The ecology of the site, and the materials found within it, inspired its design which is based around space, astronomy and cosmology.
Found in article by Jencks, "In what style shall we build?" in Architectural Review.
See also his 2000 version.
Cosmic House was the home of architect Charles Jencks.
and now run by the Jencks Foundation.
Charles Jencks and architect Terry Farrell and others built the house in the Post-Modern style.
Jencks' iwas interested in symbols and signs as a result he designed the "Jencksiana" a motif that is used in many forms within the house - the shape of windows and on the back of chairs for example.
Cosmic House was the home of architect Charles Jencks.
and now run by the Jencks Foundation.
Charles Jencks and architect Terry Farrell and others built the house in the Post-Modern style.
Jencks' iwas interested in symbols and signs as a result he designed the "Jencksiana" a motif that is used in many forms within the house - the shape of windows and on the back of chairs for example.
Snail Mound and Bloodline (row of trees) in Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation in the grounds of Portrack House, near Dumfries.
Red bridge feature in Rail Garden at Portrack House. Part of Charles Jencks' Garden of Cosmic Speculation, the Rail Garden area celebrates the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Dancers from Kataklo at a press photocall held in the grounds of the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh last week.
Their new show is called 'Love Machines' and is inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
My thanks are due to Daniela Bogo from Kataklo for inviting me along.
You can see my other shots of this group (who I also photographed in 2006) in my Kataklo set.