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Chinese Artist He Yunchang Paints Despite Sore Feet

He Yunchang’s The Rock Touring Around Great Britain (2007).Image courtesy of Chambers Fine Art, New York.

On September 23, 2006, Chinese performance artist He Yunchang scooped up a rock in the British town of Boulmer and walked (and walked, and walked…) counterclockwise around the country until he could return said rock to the very same spot — more than six months and innumerable blisters later. The above painting, The Rock Touring Around Great Britain, is one in a series based on his odyssey. Yunchang’s solo exhibition, his first in the U.S., is up at Chelsea’s Chambers gallery through December 22. —Rachel Wolff

Chinese Artist He Yunchang Paints Despite Sore Feet