Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, in a collaboration with the nature writer Robert Macfarlane, has won a contest to create a landmark public artwork for the west Cumbrian coastline: a monumental mirror to the sky is to be created in a wildly beautiful but little visited stretch of coastline for Eliasson’s first permanent outdoor artwork in the UK. Provisionally titled ‘Your Daylight Destination‘, the idea is to use a beach near the village of Silecroft as a stage for an artwork which uses the twice-daily tides to create a thing, they hope, will “astonish” people.
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