“Work of the week”: The nature of things

The stone circle in front of the late Gothic altar in Chemnitz’s St. Jakobikirche cannot be overlooked. The “Petrified Wood Circle” from 2000 consists of cedar and redwood that were petrified millions of years ago. The light and slightly darker reddish pieces form a circle of about three meters in diameter, the structure of which the artist Richard Long roughly specified in photos, but which…