james sanborn - 20.6.08

Can you crack the code? Sculptures by an American artist, James Sanborn, cannot be seen in galleries like other sculptures. Most of his works are found in odd places like the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia or the campus of the University of North Carolina, both in the United States of America. But it's not just the location of his sculptures that is interesting. These"puzzle-sculptures" contains encrypted messages that even to this very day eludes cryptologists or code-breakers.

Sanborn is famous for his work with American stone and materials that evoke a sense of mystery and hidden forces of nature. He is well known for works located all over the world with more than 125 and counting pieces since the early 1970s. His sculptures includes Kryptos at the CIA in Langley, Virginia, All the Ships Sailed in Circles at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, the Cryllic Projector at the University of North Carolina, Coastline at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Maryland, Atipodes at Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. and Binary Systems at the Central Computing Facility Internal Revenue Service in West Virginia.