A unique exhibit of time and geology will be given an equally unique conveyance when it’s time for a new home. 79 rocks comprising the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s exhibit, “Rock Face (~4.5 Billion Years)” will be on display until its close on August 30th. Then it’s time to move to a new home.
The large-scale installation by Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis invites viewers into an encounter with deep geological time, human perception, and the impulse to order the natural world. The stones are arranged in a perfect line, gradually diminishing in size from a massive boulder to a single grain of sand.
Timeless as they are, their time at the Arts Center is limited and on September 18th, the rocks will slowly make the journey to their final home, the Art Preserve, by way of a Rock Procession through Sheboygan. Each will be carried on everything from a flatbed truck for the boulders to a child’s hands for the smallest stone. Then, they’ll be in their forever home – or at least until time claims the Art Preserve itself, leaving the rocks to continue their long term on the earth.
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