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Hand of the Desert

Post by Doka » 08-20-2017 03:18 PM

CHILE

Hand of the Desert A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert. 

The scorched moonscape of Atacama stretches for hundreds of miles on both sides of the Pan-American Highway, undisturbed by any sign of human activity. About 75km south-east of the town of Antofagasta, its monotony is shattered by a sight even more alien then the desert itself, and yet undoubtedly human: an 11-meter-tall hand protruding out of the sand.

Mano de Desierto is a work of the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal, built in the early 1980s. It was financed by a local booster organization called Corporación Pro Antofagasta.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hand-desert
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