![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you to Hikmet Loe for sharing her research on the changing conditions at Spiral Jetty on her website and for her guidance on this project. Snaking through the hills on the north shore of the Great Salt Lake, the road to Spiral Jetty (1969), Robert Smithson’s magnum opus in rock and salt, is long, dusty, andaside from the rumbling of the car over gravelpleasantly quiet. To kick-off our participation in the World Weather Network we will be looking at the changing conditions at Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty since its completion in 1970. In our Instagram series of weather reports from the history of Spiral Jetty we will be sharing unseen film footage from its construction, as well as images of the earthwork immersed under water, of its reappearance in the 1990s covered with salt crystals, and of the situation today. See the Dispatch Log below for links to each individual post. Geographer Noel Castree (2016, 2017) examines how the people disciplines have opened up the broader social and human ramifications of climate change, whilst. The great American sculptor Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of 35, was as interested in the history of the Earth as he was in the. Thanks The jetty is built below a hillside so people can visit and see it from above without a drone. Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake. Spiral Jetty: Directed by Robert Smithson. The current water level of the Great Salt Lake is at its lowest since records began. Messages 2,500 Reactions 1,740 Age 57 Location Sandy, UT. In its half-century lifetime, Spiral Jetty’s visibility and relationship to the site have changed as the waters of the lake have risen and then dropped following years of sustained drought and water diversion. Constructed from 6,650 tons of rock and earth, the spiral continuously changes form as nature, industry, and time take their effect. In 2022, fifty-two years after it was created, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty-which is part of the collection of Dia Art Foundation-is a barometer for the climate emergency. ![]()
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