1970: “Spiral Jetty”



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“Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson, Sculpture, earthwork - basalt rock, salt crystals, earth and water, 4.572 m × 457.2 m (Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah)

The “Spiral Jetty” is an earthwork created on the year when the first Earth Day happens. It marks the human awareness of nature and how we are destroying it, and hopefully, nature will recover. This earthwork has exceptionally explained how we can affect nature and how nature can slowly weather our creation. Robert Smithson has moved a large amount of rocks to create a spiral in the Great Salt Lake. The rocks are dark and black at the beginning, which contrast nicely with the salt water. However, as time passes and the salt water slowly clumps onto and weathers the rocks, the rock can change its colors from black, brown to white, while the sea water changes from blue, grey to red.

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