Hanging Stones of Rosedale Moor

"Hanging Stones" is a new project by Andy Goldsworthy, who was one of my favorite artists back when he was poor, unknown, and made his art by assembling things he found in the woods. (See here and here.) But then he got to be an art world star and starting putting things in museums that don't do much for me.

I imagine that for him, this project was an attempt to get back to his roots. The idea was to take ten ruined buildings scattered across Rosedale Moor, an old estate in northern England, and restore each as a separate sort of art exhibit. To see them you have to take a six mile (10k) walk across the landscape.

Which is very pretty.

From the outside the buildings look like this, or the one at the top.

Inside, each has some sort of Goldworthy installation. This is the one that gives the whole thing its title, the Hanging Stone.

A burned tree in one building. 

Photosets of two of the buildings by Rebecca Vincent. 

The Ochre Wall.

There are other sorts of landscape interventions, such as waystones. Seems like this would be a really great walk. 

But I still wish Goldsworthy would go back to playing with leaves in the woods.