Cardiff Bay Barrage - Wales, Great Britain.
N 51° 26.860 W 003° 09.934
30U E 488494 N 5699622
The Cardiff Bay Barrage lies across the mouth of Cardiff Bay, Wales between Queen Alexandra Dock and Penarth Head. It was one of the largest civil engineering projects in Europe during construction in the 1990s.
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/27/2014
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Three massive sea locks, with three large bascule bridges, known as the Barrage, forms the entrance to Cardiff Bay, a man made Harbour, with over 10 miles of new coastline.
The lock Walls are over 60 feet deep, as the average tidal rise & fall averages over 40 feet, one of the largest tides in the World.
An interesting feature of the satellite view is th large yellow patch on the most Northerly Lock Island. This is part of an artwork known as Anamorphous Street Art and is called 'Three Ellipses' you see only fragmented lines and colours, until viewed from just one location, then the title becomes apparent. The Photo is shown in this Listing Gallery #7.
"'Three Ellipses' designed by the artist Felice Varini who is a Swiss and was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa.
Felice paints anamorphous Street art on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets, or in this case lock gates. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes. Varini argues that the work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.” Text source: (
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