first of all, your artwork reminds me of the game jenga. the game was created by Leslie Scott, and it was originally called Takoradi bricks, after the city it was created it. She lived in Ghana growing up. She after graduating high school she started to work on the game and tried marketing it to companies.
that is the lady that created Jenga.
below is a poem from the Author Gary Snyder, it talks about hay being stacked, i thought it applied.
Hay for the Horses
He had driven half the night
From far down San Joaquin
Through Mariposa, up the
Dangerous Mountain roads,
And pulled in at eight a.m.
With his big truckload of hay
behind the barn.
With winch and ropes and hooks
We stacked the bales up clean
To splintery redwood rafters
High in the dark, flecks of alfalfa
Whirling through shingle-cracks of light,
Itch of haydust in the
sweaty shirt and shoes.
At lunchtime under Black oak
Out in the hot corr,
Out in the hot corral,
he old mare nosing lunchpails,
Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds
"I'm sixty-eight" he said,
"I first bucked hay when I was seventeen.
I thought, that day I started,
I sure would hate to do this all my life.
And dammit, that's just what
I've gone and done."
Gary Snyder
here are two links to news about the great wall of china
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3109109.stm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E4DB1F39F931A15757C0A960958260
the last one is about how the space shuttle found lost parts of the great wall of china by radar
This artist, Tim Biscup, made art pieces that were interchangeable that could be stacked, to create a totem-pole, its not exactly similar to your work, but it does contain stacked objects, plus this is one of the artists that i like their work.
http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/limited_ed/tbiskup.html
This artist stacks thread spools ontop of one another, this artist more relates to your work. The artist is Devorah Sperber, she stacked 500 spools of thread.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/index.jsp?id=18261
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