More Giant Hands Around the World
After making my post about the "Giant Hands Around The World" on Sept. 25, 2018, I have found Thirteen (13) more Giant
Hands. These are;
- Hands Fountain, Shopping Park Road, Asahikawa, Japan
- Two Hands, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
- Peace Monument, Bamako, Mali
- Pirija Fountain, Split, Croatia
- The Hands, Hofvijver Lake, The Hague, Holland
- Thumbs Up, Gubkin, Belgorod, Russia
- The Cradle, Kemerovo, Kemerovskaya, Russia
- Carved Hand, Woodbridge Meadows, Guildford, UK
- The Hands, Woodbridge Quay Church, Woodbridge, UK
- Newton's Apple, Wyndham Park, UK
- Giant Hand Topiary Fountain, Jacques Cartier Park, Gatineau, Quebec City, Canada
- "Liberty Column Monument", Chopin Plaza, Miami, USA
- Emancipation Monument, Beterverwagting, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
I am also working on creating a kml/kmz file for viewing the locations of all the hands in Google earth.
Hands Fountain, Shopping Park Road, Asahikawa, Japan
"Shopping Park Road", Asahikawa, opened in 1972, is Japan’s
first permanent pedestrian mall. This fountain with a pair of giant hands is
located at the beginning of the shopping park.
Installed in 1972 it is artwork of Yuichi Kiuchi and is made
of Bronze. It measures 250 × 250 × 100 cm
Image from Flickr is by Arima Takashi
Google Street View
Source and Details - city.asahikawa.hokkaido.jp
Two Hands, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
This is third large hand in the grounds of Open Air Museum at
Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It looks some what
like 'Both Arms' by William Kenneth Armitage installed in Mandela Garden,
Millennium Square, Leeds.
Image from Flickr is by Amy Jane Gustafson
Google Street View (Photosphere) (Likely location)
Peace Monument, Bamako, Mali
Peace Monument (Monument de la Paix) shows two very
high hands holding the globe and a white dove perched on the globe. It is
located at the intersection of Ave. of Nation and the Road leading to Fadh
Bridge in Bamako, Mali and is illuminated in the night.
Image from Google+ Photos is by Sharaf Vallappuzha
Image from Flickr is by UN Women/Coumba Bah
Google Maps
Pirija Fountain, Split, Croatia
Not a very large hand but is with a novel idea. The hand juts
out high on a wall and a stream of water jet, coming out from thumb shaped spout
held between fore and middle fingers, falls on a large funnel fixed on the
ground, across the road. Reportedly it has a wind speed sensor which stops water
jet during high winds to avoid splashing of water on passersby.
Image from Flickr is by Afro Ozzie (BL)
Image from Flickr is by Chico Boomba
Google Street View
Source: blog.dnevnik.hr/elyca
The Hands, Hofvijver Lake, The Hague, Holland
Two giant hands climbing out of water holding the embankment
wall. One with victory sign, probably a sense of achievement. No information is
available about this artwork except that it was installed in 2004. The
sculptures are not visible in Google Street View imagery (August 2009 onwards),
so probably these have been relocated else where.
Image from Flickr is by Marco Raaphorst
Image from Flickr is by LUK!Around
Google Street View (Likely location)
Thumbs Up, Gubkin, Belgorod, Russia
Located at a roundabout on Belgorodskaya Ulitsa, no information is available
about this "Thumbs Up".
Image from Picasaweb is by Sergey Simkovich
Google Street View
"The Cradle", Kemerovo, Kemerovskaya, Russia
A poignant sculpture of a girl child sleeping blissfully in
palm of mother's hand. Located near a maternity home, Ulitsa Nikolaya, Kemerovo,
Kemerovskaya, Russia, it is monument to mothers and shows the importance of
motherly care and love.
An artwork by P. Barkov and Yu. Chernosov, it was opened in
2009. It is made of polymer concrete and is one metre high.
Image from Google+ Photos is by Ольга Понкратова
Google Street View
Source:
101hotels.ru (English Translation)
Tree stumps carved into hands. Not visible any longer in Good
Street View imagery though two sculpture were visible from June 2009 till May
2014 and one till November 2015. Now there is only a stump.
Following YouTube taken on June 2008, shows both hands and
some other carvings also;
Installed in 2014 these hands are artwork of Rick Kirby and
are made of small pieces of steel welded together. Words "I HOLD AND AM HELD"
are inscribed on the wrist of one of the hands.
Credits: Willi1 (an active member of Google Earth Community
Forums) who informed me about this hand. Thank you Willi.
'Newton's Apple', Wyndham Park, Grantham, England
This wooden sculpture entitled 'Newton's Apple' depicts a hand holding an apple and is artwork of Nigel Sardeson. Located in Wyndham Park Sensory Garden it was carved from stump of a horse chestnut tree that stood there in 2010. In due course the wood decayed due to fungal attack and in 2015 the hand was severed from the dead trunk and taken away for restoration. After treatment it was re-installed on a concrete base. The apple has carved continents on its surface and symbolises the concept of the earth's gravity.
GSV - Google Street View
Source: geograph.org.uk
A huge topiary entitled "Mother Earth: The Legend of
Aataentsic" shows a feminine face and a large hand with a bird resting on the
hand. It was created to celebrate 150th birthday of Canada.
Image from Flickr is by Viv Lynch
Image from Flickr by OlympiaGymDad
Google Street View
Source: Flickr
Liberty Column Monument, Chopin Plaza, Miami
"Liberty Column" - A monument to honour of Cuban rafters was
inaugurated in December 1994. It commemorates the journey and suffering of Cuban
rafters. The monument designed by sculptor Enzo Gallo shows a pair of hands
raised to the sky and a round white marble column set in a fountain.
Emancipation Monument, Beterverwagting, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
Beterverwagting Emancipation Monument showing a hand with a
broken chain, clutching a book, reportedly representing the registered title to
the property in which the village was founded. It is a memorial to the 62 freed
Africans who established a free- holders village shortly after winning
Emancipation in 1838.
Image from Flickr is by Amanda Richards
Google Maps (Likely location based on stad.com)
Source: nationaltrust.gov.gy
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