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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Artist creates 20ft figure out of rock without using a Hammer or Chisel




An artist has spent three years scouring the globe for individual rocks which resemble body parts - to make a remarkable 2.5-tonne sculpture of the human form.
Duncan Elliott, 43, hauled stones ranging from the size of marbles up to 90kg from fields and mountains across Europe.
Each rock he used was precisely the right form - and proportionally the right size - for the body part it represents and has not been chipped or shaped.
Examples of where the rocks came from:
•Fingernails - beaches of Panormo, north coast of Crete
•Left thigh - a churchyard in Bristol
•Parts of the wings - hillside on the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire and cliff tops in Paxos, Ionian Greece
•Parts of the ribs - foot of cliffs on Barafundle Bay beach, Pembrokeshire
•Ankle fibula - by a roadside near Rodopos, north coast of Crete
•Part of thigh - fields near Ashbourne, Derbyshire
•Part of foot - Black Mountains near Mazamet, Southern France
•Parts of face - hillside outcrop near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire and mountains of Halki, Aegean Greece
•Parts of lower leg - on open ground near Lydford Gorge, Devon
•Biceps - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
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