The Dark Queen, statue probably depicting the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra III (ruled 142–101 BC). Discovered in the lost, sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion
The Kelpies are 30-metre high horse-head sculptures, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. The sculptures form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. The Kelpies are a monument to horse powered heritage across Scotland.
2. @thebibliosphere scotland has the best public sculpture ideas by which I mean, at what time do the giant flesh-eating horses emerge from the ground to bring death and misery to Scotland and will they sell tickets?
looks like Denver’s been soundly unseated in the “ominous fucking equine statue” department.
Have they killed their creator yet? Because that adds extra ominous points to the Denver Murder Horse that can’t be beat just by being giant and looming.
Seriously, until these have actually eaten someone, Bluecifer is still ahead.
statue of King Arthur on the top of Tintagel cliffs
I love this, in a beautiful way it’s only half there and kinda ethereal, which is as it should be since the legends and theories about Arthur are many but there’s not a lot of certainty.
Wasn’t quite such good weather the day I was there – which meant my photos have a very different atmosphere!
Okay but the backstory behind this statue is dope af. The artist behind it Jason deCaires Taylor, he does a bunch of other underwater art pieces that many of you have probably seen on the internet……. He owns the first UNDERWATER MUSEUM in Cancun which has sculptures like these:
He even did sculptures in London called “The Rising Tide”, so that when the high tide comes around, the statues are completely underwater.
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