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Mon 07 Jul 2009An Irishman's Diary
In 1977 the landscape artist and sculptor Richard Long visited the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks in Co Kerry. He picked up a stone, threw it, walked to its landing place and from there threw it forward again. He continued throwing the stone and walking in this way, repeating the action an astonishing 3,628 times until he had completed a two-and-a-half day circular walk of the mountains.
Some may view this behaviour as verging on the eccentric but for those intrigued by Long’s work, the Tate Britain in London is running a huge summer exhibition featuring his photographs and sculptures giving a whole new meaning to the term “going for a walk”.
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