![]() ![]() It slipped beneath the waves again over the winter and spring, but has risen even more forcefully this summer. ![]() (It was already on the art-world map, figuratively speaking.)īecause of the West's long drought, the pale tips of the long-submerged Spiral Jetty's topmost boulders started poking up near the declining Great Salt Lake's northern shore last year. For perhaps more than ever before, the Jetty is generating a pretty good buzz, in Utah and around the world. In fact, the ephemeral Spiral Jetty has long been shrouded not only by a blanket of water but by a sense of mystery. His travel piece, "Something in the water," was published in the British paper The Independent. John Dickie wrote about smirking "Mormon cowboys" encountered during a 2002 pilgrimage with friends to the Jetty. Its title: "Trying to Find the Spiral Jetty." (She didn't, I understand, but came close.) Smithson's own film had something of "the quest" about it, featuring as it does such an otherworldly locale, and sprinkled as it is with intriguing maps and a pickup truck rattling down dusty desert byways.īritish artist Tacita Dean chronicled her search on an audiotape. So began a haphazard search, one that I've found puts me in good company, for tracking down the remote, usually drowned Jetty has been a small adventure - and a literary/artistic subgenre - for 30-plus years. The result was a vague consciousness that the Jetty was out there.īeneath the briny waters of the Great Salt Lake.Īt one with "mud, salt crystals, rocks, water," as the artist reiterated some 20 times on the film's narrative track. But maybe I saw it during a presentation of arty flicks at the University of Utah. I think I caught a broadcast of his film about the 1970 project on public television. Spiral Jetty - artist Robert Smithson's wonderful leap of imagination - coiled its way into my consciousness quite by accident long ago. ![]()
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