Posted on 12/05/2016 2:09:45 PM PST by aquila48
Were having a hard time deciding whether Michael Grab is an artist or a magician, because he creates stunning structure from finely balanced rocks that seem to defy the law of physics.
These seemingly impossible structures require intense concentration and meditative focus. In the video below, Grab spends several minutes nearly frozen, making tiny adjustments until he gets all of the rocks centers of gravity just right.
Over the past few years of practicing rock balance, simple curiosity has evolved into therapeutic ritual, ultimately nurturing meditative presence, mental well-being, and artistry of design, writes Grab in his artist statement.
(Lot's of pictures at the site. Be sure to watch the video at the bottom to see him actually doing it. I still have a hard time believing that it doesn't collapse or that he isn't using some trick)
(Excerpt) Read more at boredpanda.com ...
If I were his father I’d be thinking...
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
Our family always feels compelled to make rock structures (which are nowhere near as amazing as this artist’s) whenever we go on hikes.
Stick tower
Really cool, but seriously, you’re just going to sit there....wasn’t the meditating part the building of it. Just sitting there, that is just stupid, get up, make another pile of rocks, get some money for it...
Other than the Inuit, The artist who seems to have started this is Andy Goldsworthy. Andy will go to a natural area and create works of art, most of them temporary, out of whatever he could find in the area. There is a good movie about his work:
"Do or do not." "There is no try."
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