When you see this set of pictures, you must think that this is a miniature scene of a few small people on a newspaper on the desktop, but it is actually a real scene, people are standing on a huge public art installation.
Located in front of the famous Blacksheet Tower in the city of Haze, the super-popular public art installation, titled Comedy Carpet, is a collaboration between artist Gorden Young and The Why Not Associates Graphic Studios and is said to be one of the largest and most important public art projects in the UK.
Covering an area of 2,200 square metres, the entire art installation is spliced together from 4 metres long and 2 metres wide, displaying jokes, lyrics and famous sayings and aphorisms provided by more than 1,000 of Britain's most popular comedians and writers, with the aim of celebrating the extraordinary achievements of British comedy and paying tribute to those who make the British people laugh.
When you walk on it and look at the jokes or phrases on the ground, you can't help but laugh.
The entire "carpet" is designed in the shape of a "ten" shape, connecting the entrance to the Kurosawa Tower to the beach, at first glance, the text pattern on the "carpet" looks like a painting, in fact, above it is more than 160,000 letters cut from 30 mm solid granite inlaid and cast, its size ranges from a few centimeters to a meter, allowing people to clearly appreciate the unique humor of the British from all directions, even from the top of the Kurosawa Tower.
△ Floor plan of "Comedy Carpet"
△ In terms of carpet, is it more like an enlarged newspaper?
These granite letters are cut out one by one and recombined for typography, and injected with concrete to make independent modules, polished and polished and transported to the square by suction pump system and crane for splicing, each module weighs 4 tons, the whole project from beginning to end can be said to be crazy.
△ Letters cut from granite
△ Arrange and combine letters
△ After arranging the text, pour the module
△ Installation site
The project, which took five years and cost £4 million from conception to installation, pushed public art and typography to the extreme, winning numerous awards once it was launched.