This was taken about 6:30 pm, Labor Day weekend, 1985, facing south. This was the most desolate of the four views defined by the tunnels. We had a map from an old Artforum--didn't have as much trouble as Green finding the place (an old man lived about 9 miles away and showed us the road). Around sundown a huge cloud moved over our heads and got bigger and darker. Out on the open plain, I was convinced we were going to be zapped by lightning (we weren't). Pulling out about 4 am, our car disturbed a large owl sitting in the road--it flew up in front of the windshield--very spooky. It was a really memorable trip.
the tubes look like off the shelf concrete sewer pipe. they work great in the landscape - great piece. i have many found shots of towns putting in sewers that remind me of this. the pipe defines the limit of an engineered (on grid) landscape. our mark.
Holt went into some detail in the AF article about how they were made. She did use a contractor who built this type of structure for mains, etc. The problem was transporting them to the middle of nowhere, as I recall.
They can be as plain or as beautiful as you perceive them--you make a good point about their ordinariness. The work really does relate to Smithson's ideas about "new monuments," the monuments of Passaic, etc.
I can't vouch at all for how they're holding up, but I get the feeling Tyler Green would have been unimpressed if they were in mint condition.
isnt that like some pink floyd album cover?
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun Tunnels.
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- bill 9-25-2006 1:42 am
This was taken about 6:30 pm, Labor Day weekend, 1985, facing south. This was the most desolate of the four views defined by the tunnels. We had a map from an old Artforum--didn't have as much trouble as Green finding the place (an old man lived about 9 miles away and showed us the road). Around sundown a huge cloud moved over our heads and got bigger and darker. Out on the open plain, I was convinced we were going to be zapped by lightning (we weren't). Pulling out about 4 am, our car disturbed a large owl sitting in the road--it flew up in front of the windshield--very spooky. It was a really memorable trip.
- tom moody 9-25-2006 3:41 am [add a comment]
the tubes look like off the shelf concrete sewer pipe. they work great in the landscape - great piece. i have many found shots of towns putting in sewers that remind me of this. the pipe defines the limit of an engineered (on grid) landscape. our mark.
- bill 9-25-2006 4:38 am [add a comment]
what? who? oh. nevermind.
- mark 9-25-2006 9:17 pm [add a comment]
Holt went into some detail in the AF article about how they were made. She did use a contractor who built this type of structure for mains, etc. The problem was transporting them to the middle of nowhere, as I recall.
They can be as plain or as beautiful as you perceive them--you make a good point about their ordinariness. The work really does relate to Smithson's ideas about "new monuments," the monuments of Passaic, etc.
I can't vouch at all for how they're holding up, but I get the feeling Tyler Green would have been unimpressed if they were in mint condition.
- tom moody 9-25-2006 4:51 am [add a comment]
isnt that like some pink floyd album cover?
- dave 9-25-2006 5:03 am [add a comment]
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun Tunnels.
- tom moody 9-25-2006 5:46 am [add a comment]