Several years ago, I showed up in my roommate’s doorway to see what he was up to.  I was probably brushing my teeth, since this is when I usually show up in people’s doorways to see what they’re up to.

I found Bryan sitting on his drum throne, paging through a book of photographs:  Midsummer Snowballs, by Andy Goldsworthy.

In the summer heat of 2000, Goldsworthy placed 13 gigantic snowballs (weighing 1 ton each) around London’s financial district.  Each snowball contained different things – feathers, barbed wire, stones, wool, seeds – that Londoners discovered as the snow melted over the next 6 days.


Goldsworthy assembled the snowballs during two of Scotland’s snowy winters, and placed them into cold storage.  I would have liked to be one of the dudes working the cold storage place and thinking quizzical thoughts about the crazy guy rolling in giant snowballs.

Here are a few more photos of work by Goldsworthy.