People seem to really like this image, but they always ask "what the heck IS that?"
This is an installation at the ("LVM") art museum in Madison, Wisconsin. It's called "The Glassy Surface of a Lake" and is was put togehter by a Chinese artist names Xu Bing. The text is from "Walden" by Thoreau. To see what the installation looks like from the ground floor, click here. To read the press release about this installation, click here.
If you're in the area, the installation will be there through June 26, 2005. It is very cool to look at it. You can look at it from the floor below, then walk up the stairs and view it from above.
[ photograph above: Wisconsin, 2004 ]
