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Johnny Monsarrat: July 2008 Archives

Here's a photographic tour of the Wheel installation at 123 Elm Street, Somerville MA, around July 2008.



Here I'm working on placing the marble scraps. Whose idea was it to fit rectangular scraps into a complicated spiral shape?? Oh wait, it was mine...

Here are some pics of the Wheel being created in July 2008.


Before the garden. You can't see the 10,000 stumps and roots needing to be removed.

Will and his assistant, building the shrine.

The Abyss is this spiral that we're lining with scrap marble taken from the trash of a local provider.

The cylinder that will hold the cards...

gets hung so that it can spin in place. Below is concrete for the rock walls.