The modern art of henge installations began in 1998. During June of that year Nurit, Rebecca and I visited the original Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England.
It was raining and we took a picture of group of tourists huddled under their umbrellas and called it umbrellahenge.
That winter Lillian and I and some loose synapses combined with a bag of potatoes to make potatohenge. The photos were terrific and we couldn’t wait to make more.
The next year David B. and I created brickhenge. We used the swimming pool to recreate how the ancient druids floated the stones to Stonehenge. We again took some great photos.
The next few years were spent discovering other enterprising hengers. Nurit and I visited Stonehenge of Maryville on the Columbia River and Rebecca and I almost visited Carhenge in Nebraska. Both of these are permanent structures and well worth visiting.
But we build henge installations. Non-permanent henges that are photographed, toasted perhaps oohed and aahed and then removed.
By far the most successful installation to date was cellphonehenge in April of 2006. It was created by Rebecca, Lillian and I and was heralded as establishing a new standard for henge installations. Click here to see the entire set of henge photo on Flickr.
New installations are being planned. It is possible that one Sunday in October 2006 we could install pighenge and laptophenge on the same day. A two-henge day! What a dream! Is it possible? Stay tuned for details.