ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月16日 03時09分

They rise from the sand and shallows along the Hudson River like a Stonehenge built to the scale of a Manhattan apartment. This small city of rock towers — photographed here by @yeongimage — has intrigued New Yorkers for weeks. The statues change from one day to the next. Last Sunday, their creator materialized to dispel the mystery. He is Uliks Gryka, 33, a lanky Albanian immigrant with no art training who goes by Ulysses. Asked to describe his handiwork, he invoked another name out of myth. “The Sisyphus stones,” he said. “That’s what somebody called them.” The reason for their constant transformation? Someone keeps knocking them over. Fortunately, this small city can be built in a day. “I started to move the rocks as a sort of healing practice,” said Ulysses, who follows the teachings of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam. He’s not sure how long he’ll keep at it. But the rocks have lives of their own that will go on, he said, reciting a verse by the 13th-century Sufi poet #Rumi: “A stone I died and rose again a plant; / A plant I died and rose an animal; / I died an animal and was born a man. / Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?”

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