Rice places one of the first 100 stones on October 7, 2007.

For two years, artist Joanne Rice of the Mobius Group has spent an hour contemplating the human cost of war. Every afternoon, she places 100 small stones on the grassy grounds of Trinity Church at the corner of Boylston and Clarendon streets.

When the installation is finished this October, a mound of more than 70,000 stones will represent "The Human Cost of War," the title of her work.

"To me this performance reflects both the horrors of war (death of a loved one) and the relentlessness of its consequences," Rice says. "This performance is also about remembering those who have been killed as kin and reflecting on peace."

Rice places a stone on August 27, 2009.

On October 7, 2009, Rice will remove the stones and return them to the ocean.

Mobius Artists Group

For more information, contact:
Madelyn Medeiros, mmedeiros@trinitychurchboston.org, 617-536-0944 x315