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What is Rock Balancing?
A good magic trick presents what we know to be a deception and makes us want to believe it’s real. A balanced stone sculpture does the opposite: We know it’s real, but want to believe it’s a trick.
Uniting elements of performance art, sculpture, and meditation, balance artist and photographer Peter Juhl arranges natural stones found on location, using only shape, weight, and friction to create ephemeral works of art. No glue, magnets, or other artificial supports are used. Often enduring for mere minutes before toppling, the sculptures live on in the artist’s photographs.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
-Andre Gide