Jupiter Artland is a fascinating area of wood and parkland with contemporary art works and sculptures by eminent artists.   Many of them are quite strange but are the artists’ interpretations of life and nature with the landscape.   The most noticeable are Charles Jencks “Cells of Life” terraced mounds with paths leading up the sculptured slopes to summit sculptures.   “A landform celebration of the cell as the basis of life.”  Viewed from above, the layout of Jencks’s contribution to Jupiter Artland reveals how cells divide and multiply, presenting the cell’s early division into membranes and nuclei in a monumental celebration of the microscopic basis of life.
Some are made of metal like the brightly coloured orchid “Love Bomb”, and Antony Gormley’s “Firmament” inspired by an old star map forming a crouching figure.  The one that looks lie a spider web was inspired by Shetland lace.  Large boulders have been placed in coppiced trees.  Nearby hundreds of small Japanese bells on stems were ringing “music of souls” in the wind, An exhibit of water taken from 100 rivers was on display in the boat house and there was an underground chamber of amethyst surrounded by chunks of obsidian.  Although I was not impressed by the special exhibition of Tracey Emin’s work there was so much to see and think about elsewhere.