Hand Of The Desert, Atacama, Chile
The Mano de Desierto is a large-scale sculpture of a hand located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, 75 km to the south of the city of Antofagasta, on the Panamerican Highway. The sculpture was constructed by the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrazabal at an altitude of 1,100 meters above sea level. Irarrazabal used the human figure to express emotions like injustice, loneliness, sorrow and torture. The work has a base of iron and cement, and stands 11 metres (36 ft) tall.
Ozymandias On The Plains, Texas, US
Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo, two gigantic legs in athletic socks can be seen. You wouldn't know it, but they are in fact the shattered likeness of an Egyptian king."Ozymandias" is the Greek name for Ramesses II and was the inspiration and name of a famous poem written in 1818 by Romantic poet Percy Shelly after a visit to the ruins. The gym socks were painted on by pranksters, but Marsh liked it so much he took credit for it.
Maman, Ottawa, Ontario (and other places)
Maman (1999) is a sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which resembles a spider, is amongst the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide, with a sac containing 26 marble eggs. Its abdomen and thorax are made up of ribbed bronze. The title is the familiar French word for Mother. The sculpture was created by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series in 1999 for Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.
