This "suspended rock" sits opposite the entry way of the Mass MOCA complex.
It appears to be important enough to be featured right on route 8's humble beginnings here in North Adams. It stands alone in a plaza area that sits opposite the museum complex. It's contemporary; it's conceptual; its symbolic and before we pontificate on contemporary art, it's well constructed.
What does it mean? Buried in the rock are tons of compression; reflecting the gyrations of earths' geotechnic movements and combinations of minerals and baked strata to forge "rock".
The commentary at the facilities office has been generous every time I bring this piece up with the FG's (facilities guys). Most of the commentary has been very entertaining. Entertaining,...maybe that's the real value in this contemporary art piece.
Bring in the critics.
I think it speaks to our times; unoriginal, simplistic and provocative. The Medicci Family would file criminal complaints; the Romans and Greeks would be smirking. The "me" generation art cum narcissism.
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