Rowan Leaves and Hole (1987) Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
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Stone House (2004) Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Goldsworthy constructed two thirteen-and-a-half-foot-tall columns of balanced stones, each surrounded by an octagonal dome—eighteen feet in height and twenty-four feet in diameter—of split rails. Made from materials gleaned in rural landscapes, the sculpture, Stone Houses (2004), invited viewers to peer through the wood domes to see the stacked, tapered stone spires sheltered within. The granite stones, the largest of which weighed one-and-a-half tons, were from the beaches of Glenluce in Luce Bay, southern Scotland, and the split rails of northern white cedar came from New England agricultural sources.
"Stone Houses, which the artist intended to "command the space" of the Roof Garden, was envisioned as "an exploration of the relationship between stone and wood... [with] stone the more fragile partner—protected by the [guardian wood rails]—just as trees often hold together and protect the landscape in which they grow." Inherent in these seemingly simple forms were the implicit power, beauty, mystery, and elemental aspects of nature, marked by the passage of time and by human contact."
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Goldsworthy/roof2004_more.htm
