New Monument, aka ‘Entropical Paradise”
Portrait of Robert Smithson
In progress, (mock up) the ice portion and the magnets of this will be re-done
(Still from East coast/west coast in which smithson does an impersonation of what he imagines an artist from the west would act like)
“The desert is less ‘nature’ than a concept, a place that swallows up boundaries,” writes sculptor and land artist Robert Smithson of this encounter. “When the artist goes to the desert, he enriches his absence and burns off the water (paint) on his brain. The slush of the city evaporates from the artist’s mind as he installs his art.”[1]
-Robert Smithson