A mysterious public art work still stands in a remote corner of the American south, almost 30 years after their completion. There is Gothic grandeur in the Georgia Guidestones, immense stone slabs covered in cryptic inscriptions.
But there's a second layer of mystery, beyond this experiential sublime. The Wired story goes into the weird background of the thing's construction, starting with its designer. "Mr. Christian" (generally accepted as a pseudonym) brought designs, a huge amount of money, the claim of representing a shadowy group, and the following explanation to an Elbert County quarry in 1979:
Christian explained that the structure he had in mind would serve as a compass, calendar, and clock. It would also need to be engraved with a set of guides written in eight of the world's major languages. And it had to be capable of withstanding the most catastrophic events, so that the shattered remnants of humanity would be able to use those guides to reestablish a better civilization than the one that was about to destroy itself.
It's like the world's greatest rabbit hole, or a stupendous art project, or an offshoot of American Christian public art. Read the full story.
Infocult needs to meet there.
(via Todd Bryant and the horde)
I've been there!
Posted by: Eileen | May 01, 2009 at 11:13