It doesn’t happen often, but it happened to me this week on the M62. One moment I was driving here, the next moment I was driving there.
Well,
I’ve never been to
The sign on the gates said Sutton Manor. Sutton Manor used to be a colliery until the early nineties, today its woodland reserve and the long face is ‘Dream’, a 66ft high sculpture by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa.
Standing in front of her was a real experience, made all the more real and experienced by my complete lack of pre-knowledge of her existence. She’s been here since the summer of 2009 just waiting for me to find her. How could such a surreal and beautiful object not be reported wider? How had I missed her until now?
After a long straight road, missing your turn seems the right thing to do - it takes you somewhere else, somewhere unreal and wonderful -- and you can’t get there with a map!
Fantastic! I love the way she peers over the trees.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually like getting lost, but then again you don't usually see anything so weird and wonderful. Nice story, nice statue. It looks like you've distorted your images ;)
ReplyDeleteHow fab to have found such a great surprise when you could have been so browned off by a wrong turn.
ReplyDeleteThe image hasn't been elongated, the statue has. That's one of the things that make it so striking. I've checked out the sculptor's other work - he is a modern day surrealist amd owes a lot to Dali.
ReplyDeleteSarah Rawden commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteshe is beautiful :o)
Carl Smith commented on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteGreat blog and great photo. It pays to be lost sometimes.
Alan Spence e-mailed
ReplyDeleteWhat's the long face for? Cheer up!
Alan
This I like. I like this very much. Ella es muy hermosa. So Dali.
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