R.It heats my face as I stop between Andromeda galaxies and Milky Way to wait for the overlapping hills of Dumfries and Galloway Beyond. I am not surprising, in outer space. I am in Crawik is multipleThe installation of the art of the Earth under the title of the universe in southern Scotland was built on the site of an open ancient charcoal mine and celebrates the tenth anniversary of this year.
The galaxies here are huge, dumping from the ground, their surroundings continue to each other, but they have never touched.
“These galaxies are slowly moving towards each other, and in the end they will collide,” says Gillian Khosla, president of Crawick Multiver Trust. “When that happens, it will be the end of our world.” Fortunately, we have a few billion years until then.
We wander around the ground and watch while visitors climb the hills, fly around the spirals to reach the sandstone rocks at the top. Parents are chased by children, who are interested in cosmic ideas of art from the fact that this happens to double the path of an obstacle.
“We are open to everyone’s way to look at,” Caroline McMilalan, a local farmer and a cobine cobine, laughs, who joins us in walking. “It can be something artistic, or it can be a great place to come to eat coffee – or to pick up some hills with your children.”
The charcoal mine, which was working once, was closed and abandoned in the 1980s, When “Black Gold” ran out. The land is owned by Bucleuch – one of the largest landowners in Scotland. In 2005, he called the late earth artist Charles Jenx To convert it.
“It was an exhausted position,” says Khosla. “Everything was removed that was worth money and nothing remains. What tends to do open charcoal is taking, taking, taking, and what we are trying to do here is to add attention, diversity and nature and add value to society.”
Long live McMillan in a house overlooking the site for most development. “It was gray and not interested,” she says. “Now it is green and there is a lot of biological diversity – ponds and installation. It has created jobs and is somewhere people bring people now; family and friends.”
The installation was built with the existing materials – sandstone rocks were converted into black planets and holes. The center has a 400 -meter street lined with hundreds of stones in the bearing from north to south, which leads to centralization Runway That hosts Party in the summer.
Above everything, Palfidre’s viewpoint A comprehensive scenes of 360 degrees of this selective site, which is 22 hectares (55 acres), presents, where the huge cosmic languages are in the middle of agricultural lands and hills in Wadi Nath.
“Charles wanted to make this place to come to people from all over the world, and we started to go down on this path now,” McMelan says.
It is Saturday morning, and the families are going between a super infection and climbing on rocky comets. This is still part of Scotland, despite its beauty, which is particularly evident in early spring, where sunlight and green narcissus were disrupted. Some old coal strings (piles of waste rocks) are still visible outside the border walls, although the pits have ended decades ago.
I continue my artistic journey in A ‘AIRTSCommunity Arts Center and Café in the historical town of Sancoohar, just minutes away from Crawk Multiverse. Andy Williamson, the head of the center, is originally from the neighboring Kirkonil diocese. Decades ago, like many in the local area, he worked in Fauoldhead Collery in Kirkconnel, which was at the time the largest hole in Dumfrisshire. In Sanquhar and Kirkconnel, thousands once relied on drilling to earn their livelihood. The closure of mines had a deep effect here, still feels today.
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“It has been destroyed,” says Williamson. “At its peak, the population of Kirkonil was about 5,000 or 6000 people. It has reached 2000 now. The village has never recovered.”
A ‘The Aarts has a busy program for music, films and poetry – some of which are inspired by the legacy of mining – as well Sanquhar knitting pattern. “I think one of the recovery features of the village of mining anywhere is the spirit of society,” says Williamson. “This is still relevant here. Everyone collects.” Green buds germinate from lonely land.
Sanquhar is a picturesque city with a long history. On the edge of the edge, it is the ruin of a castle in the thirteenth century, where it is said that the national hero in Scotland, William Wallace, has fought the British and believes that Robert Bruce visited him. The Rabbi of Rabbi Burns was visiting the city in the eighties of the eighteenth century, and often the night remains. Sanquhar is also home to the oldest working office in the world, which was established in 1712.
The story of such Scottish myths is listed in Sankuhar Tolbouth MuseumWhich can be found in the Parock building in the eighteenth century on the high street, which also includes old Devi lamps and mining choices.
Today, there are new paths that lead to Sanquhar Castle, new play parks and increase tourism. “It is all about making the place a little better for the next generation,” says Lisa Black of the Sankuhar Foundation. “This means something.”
I spend a comfortable night in Nitsdale Hotel Before continuing my journey on Southern Highland Road Long -distance walking road runs 214 miles, from coast to coast via southern Scotland.
The corridor 40 last year and a mark of that anniversary with the signs of the carved road, which was installed at the beginning and end Three sections (Western, medium and eastern) that form the corridor.
Sanquhar coincides with the end of the Galloway Western Soul Sector and the beginning of the Hills Big section through Central Scotland. I walk eight miles away to Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland and a home to Mining MuseumWhich offers the only underground mining round in Scotland.
It is early, and I follow the farm road sharply from Sankuhar as the dawn of Thrushes, Blackbirds, Robins and Wrens Sing to welcome a day. A pair of curlews passes into the flat sky while crossing the rough and picturesque swamp, and the sun rises slowly over the valley of Nati behind me.
Crawick Multiverse costs 8.50 pounds to Adult Day passand 5 pounds sterling to From five to 16 years oldand free to underLiveAnd 25 pounds sterling to Familiesand Crawickmultiverse.co.uk. One rooms at Nitsdale Hotel from 69 pounds sterlingMarital and family room from 72 pounds sterlingand Nitsdalehotel.com. Support has been provided before Southern alliance of destination Scotland. More details from Scotland begins here
