The supposedly most interesting public space was put into service in early September. In Northumberlandshire in the North-East England we can walk on serpentines which create the image of ... a naked woman.

“Northumberlandia, the Lady of the North” is a piece of art made by a world famous landscape architect, Jencks Charles (b. 1939), an American architect, a furniture designer, a theoretician of postmodernism in architecture, who is more widely known for his projects of landscape and public parks (the so-called land arts). His projects are famous for their gigantic earth mounds, lots of serpentines, hills, ponds, tastefully selected stone elements. The latest project is the same and its most spectacular effect is created by the image of the woman. 1.5 million tons of rocks, clay and earth was used to build “The Woman of the North”. Northumberlandia, most probably the largest landscape object of its kind, is a public park which is 7 times the size of a football pitch. It took 2 years to build it. There are 5 kilometres of hard serpentines to walk on, and they are crowned with a lying figure of a woman (the image is 390 metres long). The sponsors of the park and the supplier of aggregate are Banks Group and Blagdon Estate. The former one completed the projects concerning the management of more than 100 pits and has been famous for completing projects which are social needs oriented.   

Photo: www.northumberlandia.com