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.
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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