"Cornhenge" - abin tunawa mafi ban mamaki ga masara

Marubucin shigarwa Malcolm Cochran ya kirkiro Cornhenge a cikin 1994 bisa buƙatar Majalisar Arts na Dublin. A cewar labarin 1995 a cikin PCI Journal, “Daga nesa, filin masara yana kama da kaburbura. Mai zane ya yi amfani da wannan alamar don wakiltar mutuwa da sake haifuwar mutane da al'umma. Cochran ya ce filin Masara yana nufin tunawa da al'adunmu, don nuna ƙarshen rayuwar noma. Kuma a tsarin waiwayen baya, zai sa mu yi tunanin inda muka dosa, game da haske na yanzu da kuma nan gaba."

Abin tunawa ya ƙunshi cokali 109 na masara da ke tsaye a tsaye a cikin layuka masu kama da filin masara. Nauyin kowane cob shine 680 kg kuma tsayin shine 1,9 m. Ana dasa layuka na bishiyar lemu a ƙarshen filin masara. Kusa da wurin Sam & Eulalia Frantz Park ne, wanda Sam Frantz, wanda ya ƙirƙiri nau'ikan masara da yawa ya shuka shi kuma ya ba da gudummawa ga birnin a ƙarshen karni na 20.

Da farko, mutanen Dublin ba su ji daɗin wannan abin tunawa ba, suna nadamar kuɗin harajin da aka kashe. Koyaya, a cikin shekaru 25 da Cornhenge ya wanzu, ji ya canza. Ya zama sananne ga masu yawon bude ido da mazauna gida, kuma wasu ma sun zabi yin bikin aurensu a wurin shakatawa na kusa. 

"Dole ne zane-zane na jama'a ya haifar da martani mai ban sha'awa," in ji Babban Daraktan Majalisar Arts na Dublin David Gion. “Kuma filin tarihi na Korn ya yi haka. Wadannan sassaka-tsalle sun jawo hankali ga abin da watakila ba a manta da su ba, sun yi tambayoyi kuma sun ba da wani batu don tattaunawa. Shigar abin abin tunawa ne kuma yana bambanta yankinmu da sauran, yana taimakawa wajen girmama al'ummarmu da suka gabata da kuma tsara kyakkyawar makoma," in ji Gion. 

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