Earthquake circle

Hot and very humid summer day - no complaints though. The liberating rain only came at 8pm tonight.

At work I Was waiting for the people I was supposed to meet and realized that the entrance hall was still completely empty. School holidays end only next week. So I tried to capture the architecture of the office building I was in and only realized at home that the commissioned art (earthquake circle, Richard Long, 1991) is probably much more interesting.

So here is the story:

"Richard Long's art is made by walking (and sometimes cycling) in natural landscapes across the world's wildernesses and the photographs of the works he makes along the way. Inspired by his deep love of nature, these can take many forms: a line of dust made by the scuff marks of his walking boots in the desert sand; a circle of sharply pointed rocks perched on a glacial moraine. The beauty lies in the simplicity of each piece – which goes against the grain of how we live our lives. Some works, like this sculpture, find their way into the man-made environment. Earthquake Circle, made from Calanca gneiss (grey natural stone found in Switzerland), is a landscape in miniature − a tight circle of perfect form. It is an object of quiet contemplation but also has a story of its own, as its title suggests."

Read more here:
http://art.swissre.com/commissioned-art/Long_KB0748_Earthquake.html