The "Child of the Earth" sculpture + video ...............It crouched on the ground and fell asleep on the Gobi Desert

In  Guazhou

The "Child of the Earth" sculpture is 15 meters long, 4.3 meters high and 9 meters wide. It crouched on the ground and fell asleep on the Gobi Desert in Hongshanpo, Guazhou County, Gansu Province. 

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The sleeping child, folk belief, is a fetus which has been rendered dormant by black or white magic and may eventually wake up and be born after the normal pregnancy term. This belief, supported by the concept that God's will controls everything and that no event should be considered truly impossible, is used by local communities to deal with occasional cases of pregnancy in women with absentee husbands, a frequent situation in the modern era due to the large number of males working as immigrant labor in Europe. This folk belief is used to dismiss an accusation of adultery and the consequences that such an accusation would bring.

This belief was acknowledged by traditional Islamic legislation and is still given as an explanation by some divorced or separated women expecting their ex-husbands to acknowledge the paternity of a child born up to twelve months after the separation. 

 

In terms of creative concept, the baby itself should be a tender, authentic, delicate life. When the baby sculpture image no longer appears with normal mass and common smooth materials, instead of replacing the coarse gravel stone with red sandstone, the work There is a shocking expression of vitality and respect for life itself, and at the same time it has a strong visual effect. 

The plain nature of the situational integration is always the main face, which is where the traditional Chinese art spirit lies, A spectacular desert scene! Check out this giant sculpture of a baby, 15 meters long and 4 meters high, fast asleep in the Gobi desert in Guazhou county of NW China’s Gansu. Known as “Earth’s Child”, it expresses the wish of protecting Mother Nature.