Road to Nowhere: ‘Spiral Jetty’ by Robert Smithson
Monumental art linking the ancient and (post)modern, the macrocosm and microcosm, the beginning and the end…
A single track ‘road’ spirals some 1500 feet out into Utah’s Great Salt Lake. It was constructed from black basalt and aggregate, using earth movers and road-building techniques and stood dark and stark against the waters until it repeatedly submerged and resurfaced with deeper precipitations of bright white salt crystals each time. Now, whenever it appears above…
