Henges

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… Read More »Henging, The Early Years

Carhenge puts all of my henging to shame. I’m looking forward to visiting this summer when I’ll just happen to be in Nebraska. Click on the photo to visit their web site They also sell postcards. What a good idea.

“The Western Hemisphere’s reproduction of Stonehenge,” built by Samuel Hill in Washington State overlooking the Columbia River. Click here for the official information about this ambitious, but poorly executed, project. Click here for a nice series of photos of the project.  We toured the Columbia River Gorge a few years ago and I insisted that we visit this Henge. It was disapointing in that it was dimensionally correct but failed entirely to capture the essence of Stonehenge. If you ever have issues getting a contractor… Read More »Maryhill’s Stonehenge

These are some pictures from the cellphonehenge installation in Pasadena last weekend: If you click on any of the pictures you will be taken to the Flickr site and can see a slide show of all the cellphonehenge pictures An aerial view of cellphonehenge note that the phones in the outer ring are older and therefore it is assumed that it predates the inner ring and the altar phone. This view shows the “Avenue of Pagers” leading up to the henge. This view from the… Read More »Cellphonehenge