6 pics: Serpent of the Ocean by Huang Yong Ping in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France
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Sculptor Huang Yong Ping
“Serpent d’océan” by Huang Yong Ping is a 130 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Saint Brevin near Nantes, France. Kids walk on it when the sea is back (ebb). And when the sea is up (flow), the snake looks as if it is alive and rising out of the water.
WIKI: Serpent d’océan is a monumental sculpture made of aluminum, 130 m long in total. It represents the skeleton of an immense imaginary sea serpent, whose vertebrae undulate to end in an open mouth. The work is installed at the tip of the Nez-de-Chien, in Mindin, in the territory of the commune of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in the French département of Loire-Atlantique, at the limit where the Loire estuary joins the Atlantic Ocean. It spreads out over the foreshore area: the serpent’s tail is located at the low tide limit, its head at the high tide limit. The sculpture is therefore covered and uncovered at each tide: at low tide it is possible to walk around it, but only the head and the top of the vertebrae stick out at high tide. It is intended to be gradually invaded by vegetation and marine fauna.
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that looks so cool!!
aluminum sea serpent skeleton….how long this can last in salty sea water?
I feel like it is not a fake Anaconda it look real and i have seen one before alive so if this is real i am surprised that it was alive for longer than i thought.
that is not a sea serpent in fact it is most likely a titanoboa skeleton
it’s not real so….. yeah but it’s awsome none the less
It’s not a myth. It looks like the Leviathan described by Job in the oldest book of the Bible (more than 3,500 years old. Book of Job, chapter 41)
How do you know what it looks like from that chapter? Could take many forms and still fit that description. Also, the Leviathan is the very definition of a Myth. It was a mythical creature in many different traditions and portrayals well before the Bible came along. The Bible just rolled that myth into it’s own, along with many many others.
OMG, art only from the mind of a genius!
Magical❣️