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In ancient Mesopotamia, stamps carved into rounded stones called cylinder seals were rolled onto clay documents to create planar impressions of their contents. The seals were used by citizens as a means of authenticating identity in correspondence, much like signatures or fingerprints.
Roaming Stone is a seven-foot concrete sphere that bears the signature of the American bison that grazed the Belwin Conservancy prairie in the late spring of 2022. Every year bison are brought from a meat farm to tend the land for four months before they're slaughtered in the fall. Their erratic grazing is extremely beneficial to the prairie, thinning grasses, tamping the soil, spreading seeds and moving microbes around.
Through a process of casting the ground, applying the impressions to the surface of a spherical core then translating the object into concrete, a five-ton document was made. It's a spherical seal, a fingerprint, a monument to this particular heard of dead animals. If a storm were to roll the massive stone, their roaming would be reiterated as sound is replayed by turning a record.