A Schaumburg Stone Circle

A little further down the path at the Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park is Schaumburg's own stone circle. Not quite as impressive as Old World circles, and not nearly as likely to attract Druids. Unless their rites are secret. Can't say that I've ever seen any Druids in Schaumburg, but maybe they blend in with the general population most of the time.

Actually the title is "Vineland," and it's supposed to be the outline of a Viking ship honoring Leif Ericson, though he isn't known to have made it to the Great Lakes. Jarle Rosseland of Norway is the artist.

More homages to olden times: "Chairs" by Argyro Konstantinidou, a Greek.

The chairs might feature images of Egyptians and other ancients, but they reminded me of something Frank Gehry might come up with.

Another piece by a Norwegian, Egil Bauck Larssen: "What Now?"

According to the Athenaeum, which has a web site if not an actual museum in Chicago or Schaumburg, the thing weighs 6,000 pounds and is composed of 400 steel balls.

I noticed that one of the sculptures, "Snails" by the Greek Apostolos Fanakidis, was missing. The base is still there, along with a sign giving the title and sculptor's name, but the figures had been removed. Stolen? Repossessed (these are hard times)? Repatriated to Greece in lieu of an Elgin Marble? Removed as detrimental to the morality of snails? No clue.