I like landscapes that suggest prehistory,” said Smithson. The countless fragments of shattered glass that form Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis) (1969) are layered both literally and figuratively. As the title implies, the sculpture is to be seen not simply as a pile of sharp, transparent fragments but also as a map of a legendary lost continent. “It is a shimmering collapse of decreated sharpness . . . arrested by the friction of stability.” Similar to other fictive territories, Map of Broken Glass foreshadows Smithson’s most ambitious realization: a spiral-shaped artificial peninsula made out of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks named Spiral Jetty, which he built in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1970. Read more…
This is very nice. An abstract forming itself.
Thank you! It’s always a tricky artistic question when photographing someone else’s art whether you can make your photograph stand on its own work as a new work of art or merely the documentation of the original artist’s work
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:00 PM, obBLOGato wrote:
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