What a big Earth Art Work???

Yes,you can watch it in Southwark cathedral in Central London.

Gaia is at Southwark Cathedral until Saturday 2 November. During this time admission to the cathedral – which is usually free – costs £5.Gaia is a touring artwork by Luke Jerram measuring seven metres in diameter and created from detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface.

The artwork was previously displayed at Southwark Cathedral two years ago and has returned for a further season.

When presented indoors, the Earth artwork slowly revolves. A specially made surround sound composition by composer Dan Jones is played alongside the sculpture.

The artwork is 1.8 million times smaller than the real Earth with each centimetre of the internally lit sculpture describing 18km of the Earth’s surface.

Southwark Cathedral or The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark, London, lies near the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Southwark.

A verbal tradition passed on to the Elizabethan historian John Stow suggests that the first Christian establishment was a community of nuns in the 7th century, but the first written reference is the mention of a 'minster' in the Domesday Book of 1086.

In 1106 the church was 're-founded' by two Norman knights as a priory, whose members lived according to the rule of St Augustine of Hippo. The church was dedicated to St Mary and later known as St Mary Overie ('over the river').

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