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In the state of Western Australia, you can find a dried-up salt lake Ballard, which is not only a picturesque natural site, but also the largest art gallery on our planet. In 2003 British sculptor Anthony Gormley installed 51 here outlandish metal sculpture.
How amazing sculptures of Ballard were created
Mysterious sculptures are located on the coast of the reservoir, they scattered over an area of more than 10 square kilometers. Istukanov planned to be removed immediately after the 50th anniversary Perth International Arts Festival, in honor of which they were created, however, the sculptures were so loved by the locals and we arrive that they decided to leave them. Each statue has schematic genitals and strange, fruit-like objects, “growing” out of the chest. Probably only the author of the project knows that this means.
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Gormley used a special large laser scanner, thanks to which he received voluminous copies of volunteers from the nearby city of Menzies. Then he reduced the cross sections two-thirds of the bodies and connected the contours to get fancy and bewitching human shape. The artist named his brainchild “members of society.” Each sculpture consists of an alloy, containing titanium, molybdenum and vanadium. All materials were mined in Western Australia.
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To see all the statues, you have to walk along the salt marshes several hours. Often the weather is incredibly hot, therefore, not every tourist manages to consider close each “member of society.” Ballard was the last full time in 1998 year. Heavy rains take place here periodically, thanks with which water rises a little in the lake. At such a time, some sculptures seem to stand on the water, creating enough surreal atmosphere of the unbelievable.
The ominous puzzles of “members of society”
There are several urban legends associated with this place and directly with the statues. One of these myths is that there, where the views of the images intersect, a treasure is hidden. According to another popular rumor, Anthony Gormley created exact visual copies of bodies aliens. Say, the British once saw a representative extraterrestrial civilization and decided to subsequently portray it in as sculptures, thus leaving the clue to others earthlings.
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Finally, in 2013, Canadian traveler Greg Andersen told reporters an amazing and frightening story. According to a puzzled tourist, he walked near the lake and inadvertently broke away from his group. Having mixed the direction, the man is long time went in the wrong direction along the shore of Ballard and suddenly became notice that one of the statues is chasing him! Whenever Andersen looked away from the idol, he imperceptibly approached to our hero.
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Greg did not drink alcohol, did not take drugs, and did not suffered from heat – it was not there at that moment. Mental disorders he also never had. The Canadian swears that in the end he I had to get out of there, literally backing away, so as not to turning his back on an ominous sculpture. The only way she supposedly stopped moving and “let go” him in peace. Some enthusiasts after that it was fixed that the statues actually have the property spontaneously navigate solonchaks. Maybe in them did the alien spirits really infuse? After all, they claim some space explorers that aliens and gods are the essence same…
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