A former medic came up with something extraordinary to welcome the new year.
While we, commoners, offer a one-liter bottle of champagne to our friends and count that as an act of extreme generosity, this retired medic who’s now a beach artist made a 330-feet bottle to welcome 2020.
Watch the video of the champagne below!
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However, no one could get to taste the stars as the bottle was carved out of the sand on a beach. That means it was highly unlikely to contain any form of booze.
The bottle was carved out of a 250-million-year-old rock stack.
Claire Eaton, who’s 55 years old, left her job as a medic and became a full-time beach artist in pursuit of her life-long dream.
Just to make the cork of the bottle, the artist spent 4 hours with the beach sand and limestone stacks so as to make the art piece look like genuine cork.
Claire made the bottle at Marsden Bay, South Tyneside, on New Year’s Eve. The limestone stack she used for the cork was sourced from the historic Lot’s Wife stack.
Before she made the bottle, Claire made a clock face on the beach showing 5 minutes to midnight on New Year’s Eve. The probability of the clock showing midnight time is the same as getting a glass of fizz from the gigantic bottle though.
Claire said she got the idea of making the bottle from the clock face. She spent hours making the bottle which can only be noticed when looked at from the top.
She said: “I had just finished a the clock face which had taken me five hours to complete when I looked across at the rock stack.
“I was struck by how wonderful it was and to me it looked like a huge cork so I sketched out a plan on a piece of paper to add a bottle underneath.
“It took me almost four hours to complete and it was so subtle you couldn’t actually see it unless you were above it.
“Several people actually walked through it without knowing it was a bottle of fizz which I rather like because art is supposed to surprise you.”
The rock stack where the bottle is made got its name from a figure in the Bible who was sentenced to the punishment of being turned into a pillar of salt by God in the city of Sodom.
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