"The Multiverse is surrounded by grazing pastures"

September 18, 2015 2:11 PM

Atop the twin spires of the Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies the eerie call-and-response of bagpipe players echoed across the valley. I watched four siblings race one another up to the top of the Multiverse's spire as their mother, standing at the base, tried to maneuver a cell phone around the fifth child strapped to her chest.

-The Duke, the Landscape Architect and the World's Most Ambitious Attempt to Bring the Cosmos to Earth by Alina Simone is an article about the Crawick Multiverse in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and its designer, landscape architect Charles Jencks. The garden is designed to represent modern cosmological theories.
posted by Kattullus (8 comments total)

This is some magnificent dancing about architecture. Love it.
posted by danny the boy at 2:51 PM on September 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

Forgot to mention that the first link was via the Atompunk Mailing List.
posted by Kattullus at 3:20 PM on September 18, 2015

As cool as this is (and after a glance, it is very cool), I wished that quote was from a story, not somewhere in Scotland.
posted by lhauser at 3:51 PM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

The Postmodern Antiquitarian.
posted by BYiro at 5:58 PM on September 18, 2015

strange: this video of the area from above has only 24 views...
posted by growabrain at 6:09 PM on September 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

what a fantastic story, so trippy. i really want to go there
posted by growabrain at 6:19 PM on September 18, 2015

It's like Roden Crater, kinda. I want to go.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:05 AM on September 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Multiverse meetup!
posted by moonmilk at 7:40 AM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]