About Cornhenge: Field of Corn
A grassy field in Dublin contains 109 ears of corn arranged in perfectly straight rows. Each ear is about human height, weighs roughly 1,500 pounds, and is made from white precast concrete.
Field of Corn was created by artist Malcolm Cochran and commissioned by the Dublin Arts Council. The installation was dedicated in 1994 on land that had once been farmed by Sam Frantz, a developer and corn researcher whose family property became part of suburban Dublin.
The sculptures are deliberately repetitive. Seen from the road, they resemble an agricultural field frozen into a permanent crop. Seen from between the rows, the repeated white forms become much stranger, especially because every ear has been enlarged far beyond the scale of anything that should grow from the ground.
The installation occupies Frantz Park and is free to view from public areas. It is frequently nicknamed Cornhenge, although the official title is Field of Corn (with Osage Oranges). It remains one of the rare public artworks where walking through more than a hundred concrete vegetables is exactly the intended experience.