You might sometimes feel surrounded by big heads … but if you did want to go to see some really, really BIG HEADS where would you go?
Have a look at these:
(Our featured image is by David Berkowitz)
Canmore, Alberta, Canada
This ski town in Alberta is called after a Scottish town that was named in honour of King Malcolm III of Canmore.
In Gaelic, Ceann Mór means Big Head, in the sense of a great chieftain. You’ll find this statue, by Alan Henderson, at 8th Street, at the Northeast side of the bridge over Policeman’s Creek.
Calgary, Canada
Barcelona-based artist Jaume Plensa recently unveiled a new piece of art outside the Bow Building in Calgary.
Entitled “Wonderland” and made of white wire, it depicts a young girl’s head. Two “doors” allow visitors to wander through the 12-metre-high statue.
Plensa said last year: “My vision for Wonderland is to inspire everyone who experiences the sculpture.”
“I believe the architecture of our bodies is the palace for our dreams.”
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
Jaume Plensa exhibited at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2011 and Nuria And Irma, the heads of two girls, featured as part of the show.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Another work by Jaume Plensa, Awilda is a two-metre-high sculpture of a young girl that seems to emerge from the waters of Praia de Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro.
The Sleeping Iron Giant, Birmingham, England
Ondre Nowakowski’s statue of “The Sleeping Iron Giant” was commissioned by the Heartlands Development Corporation.
It’s cast iron but the blue nose is for the local football club; it’s close to St Andrew’s, home of Birmingham City FC.
Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean
A bit of a cheat since we now know that the statues (moai) do have bodies but the giant statues – the largest moai ever raised on a platform is known as “Paro” and is 9.8 metres long – are rooted in public consciousness as the Easter Island heads. Each statue on this fascinating, windswept island represented the deceased head of a lineage, a sad metaphor now for a lost culture.
