Five massive boulders are arranged in semicircular formation, abutting a reflecting pool on the American University campus in Washington D.C. This isn’t the first installation of the oversized granite rocks, which have a combined weight of 450,000 pounds. The five pieces comprise a work by artist Elyn Zimmerman originally titled Marabar that was commissioned in 1984 as a landscape element for the National Geographic Society (NGS) campus in Washington, D.C.
Marabar was prominently installed in the public plaza at the NGS campus designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and landscape architect James Urban. Several decades later, a campus overhaul at the NGS called for
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