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A designer who was one of the first to discover the mysterious monolith that appeared on a beach on the Isle of Wight has claimed that he is responsible for its creation.
29-year-old Tom Dunford, who is from Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight, had initially said that he came across the construction of three-sided metal mirrors in Compton Bay on Sunday afternoon, while walking his dog.
Mr. Dunford participated in a series of interviews in which he proclaimed his bewilderment at his discovery and also posed for photographs by the pedestal.
But today he admitted that he was, in fact, the one who built the metal artwork he placed on Compton Beach in Freshwater.
29-year-old Tom Dunford, who is from Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight, has claimed that he was responsible for the mysterious monolith on the island.
The three-dimensional metal object was discovered by bewildered locals in Compton Bay on Sunday afternoon.
It comes after locals on the Isle of Wight were left baffled by the arrival of the seaside monolith, as the artist behind similar glowing statues that appeared around the world denied any involvement with the sculpture.
Dunford said he had been “inspired” by similar works that had appeared in the United States and Romania, and that if aliens visited, they would be able to choose the island as it was within Covid Level One restrictions.
Speaking on BBC Radio Solent this morning, Dunford said: “ If the aliens came down I think they would go to the safest place which is the Isle of Wight on Level 1.
“He was convinced that it would be stolen in the first hours.”
The discovery came after similar shiny metallic structures were discovered and then quickly disposed of in parts of the United States and Romania.
Dunford, who works for a design firm, said: ‘When I saw the first [in Utah] I thought it was brilliant, the second one popped up and I got a text message from a friend saying “you’re the man who can do this on the island.”
“I am absolutely fascinated with futuristic design, science and space. The real idea came when I was walking back to the office and we had an old sheet of mirrored methacrylate.
“I’m one of these guys, once I have a creative streak I have to go for it.”
The National Trust, which owns the site, said it had no prior knowledge of the structure and did not intend to remove it, but Dunford said it would remove it himself.
Dunford, who initially participated in a series of interviews in which he proclaimed his bewilderment, said he had been ‘inspired’ by similar work in the United States and Romania.
The reflected monolith appeared on a beach on the Isle of Wight after a month of discoveries of similar structures.
He added: ‘I’m going to drop it off and let people take pictures and come pick it up in a couple of days.’
The anonymous collective of artists responsible for the two works in Utah and California, known as The Most Famous Artist, denied involvement in the installation on the island on Sunday.
Collective member Matty Mo told the New York Times: ‘The monolith is out of my control right now.
‘Good luck to all the hard-working aliens around the world to spread the myth.’
Meanwhile, the island’s tourist office welcomed the arrival, saying: “We followed up on all of our marketing efforts, but we didn’t realize that our message of ‘discovering the Isle of Wight’ had reached a galaxy far away. ”
The structures in Romania and Utah have now been removed and are reported to be for sale for £ 34,000.
On November 18, local officials were taken aback after a glowing pillar was sighted, protruding about 12 feet from the red rocks of southern Utah.
The art collective known as The Most Famous Artist, which stood behind other monoliths, said the silver structure had “gotten out of control.”
The mysterious triangular metal monolith appeared in the remote Utah desert on November 18.
Photo: Three of the four culprits responsible for tearing down and removing the mysterious Utah monolith Friday night
However, photographer Ross Bernards, who visited the monolith this month, described in an Instagram post how four men showed up that night, pushed the object and dismantled it before taking it away in a wheelbarrow.
One of them looked at all of us and said, “Leave no trace.” That was at 8:48, “Bernards wrote.
The initial discovery of the Utah pillar quickly went viral around the world, with many noted the object’s similarity to strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-fi film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.
Some observers even noted the object’s resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken, an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico and died in 2011.
Another structure also appeared atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero last week.
In northern Romania, the glowing triangular pillar was found on Batca Doamnei Hill in the town of Piatra Neamt this month.
The sculpture disappeared from Romania’s mountainous Neamt county four days after its sudden appearance.
Also this month, a gleaming monolith disappeared from Romania’s mountainous Neamt County, four days after its sudden appearance near an ancient Dacian fortress.
“The 2.8-meter (9-foot) tall structure disappeared overnight as silently as it was erected last week,” journalist Robert Iosub of the local newspaper Ziar Piatra Neamt, who had seen the structure, told Reuters. .
“An unidentified person, apparently a bad local welder, did it … now all that remains is just a small hole covered by rocky soil,” local reporters had discovered, he said.
The sheet metal structure had a poorly welded joint, he added.
A Piatra Neamt police spokeswoman, Georgiana Mosu, said officers were conducting an investigation into the illegally installed structure, which was located in a protected archaeological area since November 27.
A third structure also appeared atop Pine Mountain in Atascadero, last week.
The obelisk was later demolished by a group of four men dressed in a mix of military uniforms and Make America Great Again merchandise who chanted “Christ is the King” as they lowered the metal sculpture.
