The Atacama is one of several gorgeous , apparently exanimate comeupance that make Chile look like another humanity . And that ’s why it ’s been popular with artists since before the days of the Inca . There ’s nothing like a blank landscape if you desire to create a massive , haunting sculpture . And that ’s just what Chilean carver Mario Irarrázabal has done here .
According to Atlas Obscura :
About 75 km south of the town of Antofagasta [ is ] an 11 - meter - tall hand start out of the sand . Mano de Desierto . . . was built in the other 1980s . It was financed by a local booster organization called Corporación Pro Antofagasta .
It really does look like something out of scientific discipline fiction — or maybe out of the bass history of humanity , when we were first try out with the idea of art .
viaAtlas Obscura
Top effigy byJohn T. ; others via Wikimedia Commons
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