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Several specimens of ruminant animals with large udders chewing grass in a Cambridge meadow

from Cold grey void electrically operated by mantis​-​eyed humans (2022) by Escupemetralla

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This track is based on "Grantchester Meadows".

Several specimens of ruminant animals with large udders chewing grass in a Cambridge meadow, with a view towards the town, were painted by Constable in 1824 and 1826. These paintings are now in the Tate Gallery near the lavatories.

The first of these paintings, "A Cattle Shed in a Cambridge Pasture" (1824), is a view of the meadow from the south-east. The cattle are grazing in the foreground, with a group of trees and a small building on the left. The second painting, "A Cattle Shed in a Cambridge Pasture, 2" (1826), is a view of the same meadow from the north-west. The cattle are amidst a group of long-haired and naked youths who are playing cricket. The painting is a parody of the pastoral genre, with the naked youths representing classical gods and goddesses wearing masks of Roger Waters at eighteen.

The paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1827, and were bought by the Tate Gallery in 1894. The meadow is now a public park, and the cattle shed has been converted into a Costa Café. The meadow is now known as Constable Meadows, and is owned by St John's College. It is open to the public, and contains two sculptures by Henry Moore.

The first, a piece known as "A Two-headed Woman", was commissioned in 1967, and is a bronze statue of a woman with two heads. It was originally located in the grounds of the nearby Treloar School, but was moved to the Isle of Wight in 2010. The second sculpture, "A Two-headed Woman 2.0", was commissioned in 1969, and is a bronze figure with three heads, one of them missing. It is located near the entrance to the Phlegethon, a river of fire that forms the boundary between the sixth and seventh circles of hell.

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Escupemetralla are the result of a series of retro-transmissions to be carried out in the mid-twentyfirst century at the "Thorne's Cone Light Reversion Laboratory for Children", Los Alamos, Texas (Federal States of Mexico and Puerto Rico). In a certain way, Escupemetralla are just virtual entities that will actually exist in several years' time. Escupemetralla means "Spitshrapnel" in Spanish. ... more

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