Five Stones

In 1967, Richard Long made the seminal work A Line Made by Walking (1967), which consisted of a photograph of the trail left in the grass by walking back and forth in a straight line. By the 1970s, he had established an international reputation with sculptures made as the result of epic walks, sometimes lasting many days, to remote parts of the world. Five Stones is a photograph showing the paths left by five stones that have been rolled down the shale slope of a volcano in Iceland.

"My art is in the nature of things. I like the idea of making something from nothing. I can walk all day and sleep all night following an Idea. I use the land without the need of ownership. My talent as an artist is to walk across a moor or a place a stone on the ground. My work is about movement and stillness, the walking and the stopping places, it can be either passing by or leaving a mark. I use intuition and chance, body and mind, time and space. I use the world as I find it." [Richard Long, 2009]