East-West/West-East by Richard Serra

This guide to Richard Serra's East-West/West-East on Qatar's Zekreet peninsula opens with a puzzle: four steel plates that look perfectly level across a kilometer of desert, though two stand two meters shorter than the others. It traces the twelve years Serra spent visiting and turning down Qatar before Sheikha al-Mayassa persuaded him to build here, and his habit of walking a site for days rather than working from a studio model. The plates were shipped from Germany and raised in 2014, cor-ten steel spread unevenly across roughly a kilometer of the Zekreet peninsula.