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.
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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]
