Sculpture from space in the Berkshires

"Crystal'' (wood and zinc-coated copper), by Thomas Schutte, in his show "Crystal at the the Clark,'' at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., through Oct 31.

Mr. Schutte is best known for  large-scale sculptures of figures that reimagine the role of statuary and monuments.  This installation is  in a meadow near the top of Stone Hill, close to the  edge of woodland. He got the idea for the unusual asymmetrical shape by thinking of a small piece of crystal scaled up to architectural proportions. He seems to have sought to create a sense that space aliens had landed in the Berkshires.