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Following our recent photos of 'Truckhenge', it's time for the latest in our occasional series of off-the-wall tributes to Stonehenge from the 'Land of the Free'. Today we bring you... Soaphenge!
Although it appears American Tourists prefer Hadrian's Wall once over here, no ancient British structure has invaded the popular imagination quite like Stonehenge.
So over to our correspondent in Soap Lake, Washington (yes, that's a real place...)
Brent Blake towers over the ancient and mysterious structure, looking for the Neanderthal throwing a rock.
It's the only plastic figure performing the action. When Blake finds it, he places it atop one of the soap bars that comprise Soaphenge.
The concept is one Blake came up with several years ago, shortly after the idea to locate a giant lava lamp in Soap Lake occurred to him.
Blake built a model using Lava soap to correspond with the lava flows of the region and including the Neanderthal figurines to simulate ancient peoples fighting over territorial issues.
His concept is a Stonehenge, with giant bars of soap filling in for the standing stones of the England structure.
"We're actually in Soap Lake, so a giant bar of soap seems to be the appropriate component to create a 'henge' for Soap Lake," Blake said.
[OK, I think we've got that now - Ed]
He's in the process of looking around Soap Lake for piece of property where the structure could fit as a place for people to go, visit or have a picnic lunch, watching the sun and shadows interact with the artwork.
"The concept is to build this, not at a huge scale, but maybe each of the bars of soap is roughly 4 feet by 8 feet and about 2 1/2 feet thick," Blake said.
The structure would not be comprised of actual bars of soap, [Oh, disappointing]
"That would be fun," Blake said with a grin. "But if we construct it to look like real bars of soap, and it had a structure to where it would weather the elements, be structurally sound and highly susceptible to graffiti, but we don't really want to talk about that, we don't want that to happen."
Blake postulated the bars would be made of lightweight concrete, with the word "SOAP" cast into the material.
[Riiight.... I'm losing the plot here, over to the Spokesman Review for the rest of the story (over 2 pages)]
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