Crop Circles

The crop circles which appear in British fields on short summer nights have quickly become the most famous works of modern art on Earth. Perfectly conceived, priceless and expertly crafted by artists unknown the formations are an environmental triumph the highest form of spin in art.This small volume, by architect, inventor and worldfamous crop circle commentator Michael Glickman, tells the central tale of the evolution of design and form within this beautiful and quintessentially British mystery.

• by Michael Glickman crop circles First published in 1996 as Corn Circles This revised edition Woode
• This book is dedicated to Louis, Ben and Max and to my dear colleagues in the crop circle community,
• 1 INTRODUCTION The more thoroughly you describe, the more you will confuse. It is necessary to dra
• 3 2 of Everything is deeply affronted by that which is doggedly enigmatic and stubbornly uncategoris
• 4 CirCles and rings the carpet unrolls The appearance of simple circles and ringed circles marked th
• 6 Even in the early years, it was clear that the Circlemakers for what else can we call them were tr
• 8 The quintuplet, essentially a dice fivespot, though varied in size and proportion always seems to
• 10 1990 was perhaps the season in which the Circlemakers truly started to demonstrate their prodigio
• 12 alTon Barnes a shifting of gears 13 The historic Alton Barnes crop formation deeply affected all
• 14 rings BeTween CirCles halos and pendulums Working with only a small set of formal devices this gr
• 16 dolphins twins and an isolated turtle With the exception of the little Hungerford Turtle, every d
• 18 inseCTograms dodmen with ladders A remarkable feature of the 1991 season was the uniformity of th
• 20 CreaTures and thought bubbles Early in 1994 the West Kennett Scorpion appeared in the muchvisited
• whirlpools vortices of nested crescents 22 23 These three large circles show the versatility and eco
• 24 orBiTs and asTeroids necklaces of precise planets The Star Map qualities of some of these aweinsp
• 26 spinners and mandalas lessons in rotational geometry From the very start it was clear that the me
• 28 In 1996 a gigantic spiral composed of 151 circles appeared unusually during the hours of daylight
• 30 The Silbury Star was shocking in its originality. It took the form of a 240 foot Koch fractal.
• 32 The beautiful Danebury formation was the first sevenfold to materialise, soon followed by the 300
• 34 The Goodworth Clatford formation introduced a design type which perhaps reached its zenith at Cla
• 36 The Cherhill crop circle followed the lovely Aldbourne design and was placed in a beautiful and o
• 38 The pattern of West Overton was immediately recognisable. If cut out of card, folded and joined,
• 40 These three formations, all from 1999, show the seemingly unlimited inventiveness of the crop cir
• 42 The Alton Priors formation which was formed of twelve gigantic rings could be read as a torus, th
• 44 rope sQuares and sinuous fractals The South Field formation of 2002 was about 350 feet in diamete
• 46 shimmering ComplexiTy sophisticated doilies Positioned in the lovely field on the lower slope of
• 48 pushing limiTs an exploration of possibility The gigantic 2001 Milk Hill formation was, without q
• 50 The Crooked Soley formation was harvested just a day or two after its appearance. Nobody but the
• 52 soaring forward beauty in their wake The Swallows landed at Adams Grave like a family of the exot