Along the Hudson just below the George Washington bridge mysterious stone sculpture have been appearing. They're created out of the rocks - Manhattan schist, granite, quartz - that line the river banks. People began to notice that they would disappear and then reappear in different formations.
These are all thanks to artist Uliks Gryka, an Albanian immigrant who has no idea who Andy Goldsworthy or Robert Smithson are. He began stacking the rocks as a form of meditative healing. He is a follower of Sufi philosophy.
When he found his sculptures torn down the first time it upset him, but he took to building them again and they grew is size and scope. Some visitors to the site have dubbed them the "Sisyphus Stones" after the Greek myth of the man constantly rolling a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll on on him.
Uliks sees his sculptures as figures like a conductor with a group of musicians, a warrior, and a madonna. The New York Times quoted him as saying they looked like a scene from Dante's Inferno:
“all the souls waiting on the Styx River for a boat to take them to the other side.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/nyregion/a-mystery-solved-why-the-sisyphus-stones-rise-and-tumble.html?mcubz=3
There is something reassuring about his continual stacking of stones at a time when buildings are tumbling in Mexico due to earthquakes and in Puerto Rico due to hurricanes.
These are all thanks to artist Uliks Gryka, an Albanian immigrant who has no idea who Andy Goldsworthy or Robert Smithson are. He began stacking the rocks as a form of meditative healing. He is a follower of Sufi philosophy.
When he found his sculptures torn down the first time it upset him, but he took to building them again and they grew is size and scope. Some visitors to the site have dubbed them the "Sisyphus Stones" after the Greek myth of the man constantly rolling a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll on on him.
Uliks sees his sculptures as figures like a conductor with a group of musicians, a warrior, and a madonna. The New York Times quoted him as saying they looked like a scene from Dante's Inferno:
“all the souls waiting on the Styx River for a boat to take them to the other side.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/nyregion/a-mystery-solved-why-the-sisyphus-stones-rise-and-tumble.html?mcubz=3
There is something reassuring about his continual stacking of stones at a time when buildings are tumbling in Mexico due to earthquakes and in Puerto Rico due to hurricanes.
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