Wednesday, May 18, 2011

“Awesome” is the word that springs to mind.

What springs to your mind?
But that’s not all it is—the boulder is just the most prominent feature of Heizer’s latest earthwork. It will be installed above a 456-foot-long trench that stretches behind the Resnick Pavilion. You’ll walk the length of the trench, which eventually descends to fifteen feet underneath the boulder before rising back to ground level on the other side. It promises to be quite an experience. “Awesome” is the word that springs to mind. To give you an idea of the experience, you can see in this aerial view of the campus a path that already exists behind the Resnick Pavilion—this is roughly the length of the trench we’ll begin cutting into the earth this month.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The rock itself.

2 comments:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

"Booby trap" springs to mind.

M. Bouffant said...

Has Suffered For His Art, Now It's Your Turn Editor Agrees:

Aesthetics & "What is art?" aside, it did occur to us that it might become the Indiana Jones & The Rolling Rock of Doom museum ride.