South American-born sculptor Bruno Torfs has spent 25 years stocking Bruno's Art & Sculpture Garden in Marysville, Victoria in Southeastern Australia. Well over 100 of his works are on display in the rain forest. There's a Flash slideshow there, or, for a different view, a visitor has assembled a Flickr set with thumbnails.

I admire people with a lifework that builds incrementally -- they end up with so much to show for it.

Talking in symbols:

Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields. Telegraph UK.

The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.

It is has appeared in a field near Barbury Castle, an iron-age hill fort above Wroughton, Wilts, and has been described by astrophysicists as "mind-boggling".

Michael Reed, an astrophysicist, said: "The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up. The little dot near the centre is the decimal point. ...

Further elucidation follows.


The Times (London) offers a photo of the "secret decoder ring" above, noting,

The symbol was identified eventually by ...Reed, a retired astrophysicist who contacted Lucy Pringle, a crop circle photographer and expert, with an explanation.

I love the whole idea of this, no matter who or what makes them, for whatever purpose. As conceptual art goes, they're elegant surprises without equal.