Crawick Multiverse

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]

Landforms: Multiverse (foreground); Supercluster (centre); Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy Mounds (behind).

See also

• Holm House and the Crawick Glen