Log presents Ray's life-size sculpture of a fallen log he discovered by the side of the highway in California. After visiting the log many times, Ray decided to move the log in pieces to his studio, where he made molds of the log and produced a fiberglass replica of it. Eventually, he sent the fiberglass replica to Japan where a master woodworker and his apprentices carved the final wooden sculpture out of Japanese cypress.

When asked to organize an exhibition on a theme of his choice, the Los Angeles artist Charles Ray chose that of moral and amoral space, which he took from sculptor Alberto Giacometti's description of one of his own works.