Benjamin Langholz's circular staircase at Burning Man creates "an alternate reality"
Artist Benjamin Langholz created a circular staircase of stepping stones to allow revellers to tune out the immersive atmosphere at this year's Burning Man and focus on themselves.Â
Langholz arranged 27 stones in an ascending ring, supported by a central pillar and three surrounding pairs of columns, to create the installation named Stone 27.
Intended to provide a "shift into a new reality", the journey up and around the elevated stones was designed to take visitors on a "floating walk to experience a moment of complete presence".
Langholz placed the 27 basalt stones at stepped heights to form the continuous circular pathway, which measured seven metres above the ground at its highest point.
With each stone weighing over 450 kilograms, the 13.6-tonne installation was supported by a structural frame consisting of seven minimal steel columns. "The idea of pathways of floating stones appealed to me because you can present an alternate reality," explained Langholz to Dezeen. "One where something heavy and stable suddenly becomes light and floats in the air."
Three pairs of columns were angled to fan outwards from the central pillar, with each stone attached to  four points in the structure ? using to over half a mile of steel rope. At the base of steel support, a pile of basalt rocks placed by the artist hid the structure inserted into the ground.
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