An area of 269 hectares near the town of Keltie is now occupied by an abandoned mine. Jenks plans to transform it from a wasteland into Scotland's largest recreational area. About 20 tonnes of land that has been excavated during coal mining will be used to create four 30 m high hills.
The park, named "Fife Earth Project", will be dedicated to the history of the "Scottish diaspora" - 40 million people who left their homeland in recent centuries. Therefore, its hills will represent the regions where the Scots settled: an oval hill represents the United States and Canada, a round one - Europe, a cape-like one - India and China, a triangular one - Australia and New Zealand.
An artificial lake in the shape of Scotland and another body of water surrounded by rocks will be created between these hills. Each of the hills will differ from the neighboring ones by its vegetation and labyrinthine objects created from the debris left on the territory of the mine - boulders, scrap metal, tires.
Jenks stressed that this will be a large-scale work in its essence, since the huge size of the territory does not contribute to a deeply felt communication with art. But he also noted that the creation of a new park is the transformation of an urgent need into art.
Work on the Fife Earth Project has already begun, and the park is due to open in 2012.
