![]() relation between circularity of the spiral and the film spool -sense of cosmic rupture in the disjuncture between reality and film ![]() ![]() Smithson is interested in modern prehistory - the film editor is like a paleontologist sorting out glimpses of a world not yet together -in essay: discusses the scale of the work: it depends on where the viewer happens to be. represented the convergence of many ideas: the site itself - a disrupted landscape bearing the remnants of a deteriorated shed and some oil-drilling equipment by lurid red water-resembles an entropic landscape that simultaneously embodies a prehistoric past and a science-fiction future. My dialects of site and nonsite whirled into an indeterminate state" -the film juxtaposes footage of the dinosaur skeletons in a red filter at the American Museum of Natural History, with shots of the making of the spiral, and text in the form of "geopoetic commentary". Finally, it reflects the circular formation fo the salt crystals that coat the rocks -Smithson was initially attracted to the site because of the red coloration fo the salt lake -the work was changed by its environment, reflecting Smithson's fascination with entropy -subsequently submerged in water, the monumental structure is a hollow testimonial to man's dominance of the landscape and a comment on his relationship to monuments -there are 3 manifestations of the work: the outdoor sculpture, a 1,500-foot-long spiral created with materials found on site at Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah (originally sponsored by Virginia Dwan and acquired by Dia) essay by the same name film funded by art dealer Douglas Chrismas -Smithson spoke of the sculpture occupying a "site", whereas he described the essay and film as Nonsites (language and photographic images on same ground as the jetty itself) -in the essay, he writes that "no "no ideas, no concepts, no systems, no structures, no abstractions could hold themselves together in the actuality of that evidence. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 -massive undertaking to move 6,650 tons of earth, using 2 dump trucks, a tractor, and a large front loader -basalt and earth were scooped from the beach at the beginning of the jetty: the trucks backed up to the outline of the spiral and dumped the material -the form of the work was influenced by the site, which had once been used to mine oil - spiral derived from the local topography, but also related to a mythical whirlpool at the center of the lake. ![]()
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