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Three Earthworks - Double Negative, Sun Tunnels, Spiral Jetty

Over the last 6 months in 2021, I visited three major "earthworks" in the western United States, and I decided to document the experience as part of a personal project. The "earth works" or "earth art" movement started in the 1960s and inspired new ways to think about the earth and time and space and the nature of art and sculpture. Each of these pieces has been an experience involving travel and interaction, and they prompt the creation of art (in this case, film and photography) around them. Double Negative is the grandest of these works in scale, and the desert and the mesas and the mountains around it magnified its power. All three of the works inspire both action and meditation as you interact with them. A lot of people say they don't like "modern," and I appreciate that sentiment. Sometimes, I agree. But "Double Negative" is a powerful, masculine work that will — like the statue of Ozymandias — be around long after the artist has been forgotten. What do you think? Have you visited any works like this? For more information about "Spiral Jetty" and "Sun Tunnels," look up the Holt/Smithson Foundation's web site at: https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org "Double Negative" is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. https://www.moca.org "Mountain Dance," the music in the video, was licensed through Adobe Stock.