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Almost as dramatic, although somewhat less "visible," is Buchanan's "Ruins and Rituals" a grouping that nestles in the wooded courtyard behind the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences. She created the arrangement from massive earth-colored blocks of cement called "footers" once used to support an old building in Macon and discovered during an excavation.

Buchanan likes to tell how [[strikethrough]] Curt [[/strikethrough]] Burke Slocumb, president of Georgia Steel, donated the equipment and labor needed to arrange the grouping. She laughs when she tells how the foreman placed his hardhat on her head and said: "We'll move these things as many times as you want us to and put them whereever you say. We were told you would probably change your mind a lot and to treat you live a woman moving furniture." But Buchanan was not just moving blocks of concrete around. Ever since she had the idea she had been working on a design that would take advantage of the site's constantly shifting lights and shadows. When she tells the story, she brags: "It took us maybe an hour altogether."

Almost everybody who sees "Ruins and Rituals" compares it to Stonehenge. Although Buchanan does not mind such comments, she does not see it that way. She says: "I know people call my work 'mythic', but when I'm working I'm not thinking like that at all. I'm thinking of the feel of the thing and how it looks. I know how the grit feels-- and the concrete-- and how the light falls on it. I don't have to sift through what it means; I know how it feels. I want people to look at the piece."