Wandering Rocks (sculpture)

Wandering Rocks is a 1967 steel sculpture by Tony Smith, made in an edition of five plus one artist's proof.

The five elements of the sculpture have different size and shapes, based on tetrahedrons and octahedrons, with faceted surfaces painted with a semi-gloss black, and are individually named "Crocus", "Dud", "Shaft", "Slide", and "Smohawk".

Several of the editions are exhibited in public, typically installed outdoors on a grassed area.

The sculpture may allude to the structure of molecules and crystals, or the Japanese rock garden of Ryōan-ji in Kyoto.

As Smith described it: "The Rocks were really conceived as one piece, although I didn't think of them as having a fixed spatial relationship to one another.

Edition 4/5 in Washington DC in 2013
Edition 5/5 in the Netherlands in 2008