Parliament of Reality is a permanent installation by artist Olafur Eliasson on the campus of Bard College, in the beautiful Hudson River Valley, New York. In this environmental artwork completed between 2006-2009, Eliasson achieves a clarity of design with elements focusing upon an island of bluestone encircled by a pond. Commissioned for the Bard College campus in upstate New York by the Center for Curatorial Studies, the setting is embraced by a ring of 24 trees. In the center of the pond, the island’s circular form resonates with distinctive stone paving, forming a 12-point pattern that references the meridian lines of nautical charts and the compass.
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