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Place and Number, 2010-11

 

Stone, stainless steel, primer paint, pigment and gesso
30mm⌀ x 7500mm L approx.

Stainless steel bar: (hot rolled and polished roundbars: ROUND 1.4305 POLISHED: cast number B04255) Manufactured by Outokumpu in the United States' mill
Drill core stone: (drill hole code: M52 4241 70 359 14), taken by Outokumpu in 1970's from the depth of 96.80m in Hammaslahti, Finland

 

 


 

 

The origin of the Outokumpu company in early 1900's was initiated by, and named after, the particular hill that was seen as a sign of a place (A Strange=Outo, Hill=Kumpu) where it led the discovery of rich copper ore.