Columns are supports that are not walls. You can meander around them like trees in a forest. They impress by their individual strength, and lined up, they remind us of community, each sharing a part of a load. This stirs us in awe, whether they are natural or human-made .

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Ancient cultures compared and designed columns to the human figure. Classical Greek columns have become symbols of colonization and can be found in infinite variations throughout the world.

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The architecture of this colonnade is part of this history. This modernist version remains in our collective memory as a device of empire. 

 

The Giants Causeway, also non-carrying, astonishes by its natural power. A unfathomable phenomenon of endless wonder.

 

As removed as they are from each other, they both intrigue as monumental vertical sculpture inviting us to walk, and connect sky and ground.

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