The Nuba Survival, Checkendon April 2016

[mookster]

I don't really know the best way to introduce this, it's certainly an enigma with an interesting back story.​

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The Nuba Survival (often mistakenly called The Nuba Embrace) is a sculpture by John Buckley beside a very derelict barn in a field in rural Oxfordshire.​

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This sculpture appeared by Copyhold Barn, Checkendon. John Buckley created the sculpture on his return from a visit to the Nuba Mountains in central Sudan in 2000- 2001 where he was a guest of the Nuba Rehabilitation, Relief and Development Organisation (N.R.R.D.O.) during the time of the genocide. He witnessed first hand a mass attempt to wipe out a cultural identity through ethnic cleansing, slavery and fierce attacks on the traditional homelands.​

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Whilst the sculpture itself isn't 'abandoned' as such, it's a very peculiar place to be sited. And the falling down barn is pretty cool as well with it's multitude of boats under the collapsing roof.​

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The weather was dreadful, I want to go back in the height of summer when it's not raining too much.​

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Thanks for looking :wink:​

 

[Vulex]

Its a nice sculpture isnt it. I visited it after the Jewish College.

 

[AndyK!]

Cool sculpture, although a little odd

 

[The_Raw]

Cool sculpture, what a totally bizarre place to leave it

 

[Urbexbandoned]

Really like the sculpture but what a strange location for it to be in?? Would love to know why it was placed there.

The little place reminds me of a run down shack. Nice  

 

[Merryprankster]

I stopped by this last year, it was massively overgrown with nettles around the barn so couldn't get in to have a look around, tis a cool sculpture though