Today: Rockspinner Places a Giant 22,000lb Boulder of Art at 10th and Peachtree

The massive art installation will take place from 10am - 12 pm on Thursday morning at the corner of 10th and Peachtree for Rockspinner's traveling piece of kinetic art.

This event marks the installation of Rockspinner – a 22,000 lb boulder from the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada.  The boulder will be installed on a pivot allowing park visitors and passers-by to slowly turn it around.  

"This kinetic sculpture is about the transformation of one’s relationship to mass. 
Normally a 22,000 lb. boulder is the very embodiment of an immovable object. But with art and engineering this weathered boulder from the mountains of Nevada becomes a surprising object of movement and play," says the artist, Zachary Coffin.

Coffin's work has been displayed across the nation, but also previously in Midtown at The Atlanta Botanical Gardens.  Coffin is based in Atlanta and from here, has built multiple public commissions as well as building Rockspinner, Temple of Gravity and Colossus for Burning Man. (Some of his other large pieces of work)

Note: Traffic will be affected by the installation.  The two west bound lanes of 10th Street will be blocked off between Peachtree and Juniper to accommodate the 150-foot crane needed to lower the 22,000 lb boulder. 

So while you're on a lunch break or if you need to get out and walk the dogs around 11 or noon, come down to 10th and Peachtree and watch the huge crane lower the art boulder in place!

For more info about the artist and his works, visit http://www.zacharycoffin.com