A hospital in Qatar has received worldwide attention for 14 huge bronze sculptures that depict the unborn child’s journey from conception to birth. Three years in the making, the sculptures conclude with a 46-foot-tall baby boy. Collectively they weigh 216 tons and cost $20 million to make and install.

Artist Damien Hirst has talked about the process, and secrecy, behind them.

Most of the work, “fraught with secrecy,” was carried out in Hirst’s studio in England. “The first meeting I had with the architects, I was not allowed to tell them what the sculptures were because they wanted it to be a surprise,” Hirst said.

Hirst traced his fascination with childbirth to having children of his own. “Everyone talks about our life’s journey, but we have a whole journey before you’re born,” he explained.

“Ultimately, the journey a baby goes through before birth is bigger than anything it will experience in its human life,” Hirst said. “I hope the sculpture will instill in the viewer a sense of awe and wonder at this extraordinary human process, which will soon be occurring in the Sidra Medical Center, as well as every second all across the globe.”

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