land art
Highlights
Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30)
Robert Morris’s Untitled Earthwork (Johnson Pit #30) (1979) reshaped an abandoned gravel pit into a terraced amphitheater, reclaiming the land as public art. Today, the site also serves as a space for walking practice and outdoor movement activities.
Ground Mutations – Shoe Prints
Dennis Oppenheim’s Ground Mutations – Shoe Prints (1969) used grooved shoes worn for three months to leave imprints across industrial landscapes, documenting human movement and transforming ordinary footsteps into patterns that merge process, trace, and photographic art.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., designed by Maya Lin, features two black granite walls set below ground and engraved with the names of the fallen. As visitors walk through, they see the names and service dates, their reflections merging with the inscriptions in a contemplative space.
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is a 1,500-foot-long earthwork made from 6,000 tons of basalt rock, winding into the Great Salt Lake. The spiral form reflects salt crystal deposits and explores themes of entropy, transformation, and the passage of time in the landscape.
Body Techniques (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974)
Body Techniques is a series of 8 photographs by Carey Young exploring the body in globalized corporate spaces. Set in Dubai and Sharjah, she reworks conceptual art actions, highlighting tension between individual agency and overwhelming, hyperreal corporate landscapes.
Walking pieces
Plantón Móvil
Plantón Móvil is a yearly participatory “walking forest” performance that creates new green spaces. Blending the meanings of “sapling” and “sit-in,” it imagines plants marching through the city to demand respect, inspired by Lima’s mistreated urban trees.
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
Walk 96
Komorebi Walk*, South Saskatchewan RiverKomorebi is a Japanese word for the way light filters through trees. Memories of sun and shade and a thousand gestures of green leaves, and the feel of shady woods in the summer. Here, in the middle of winter: the leaves are dead and down, the sky is overcast, and the trees are bare bones. But there is light in the snow, the river, the grey sky, and to walk while focusing attention on trees and light is a way to find beauty everywhere. * [...]
Walk 55
Pavan Park, Lethbridge, AlbertaThis time around the Pavan loop offered up sunlight reflecting on water, a porcupine in a tree, beautiful land art by Troy, the call of a Northern Flicker, beaver-chewed branches, mud, riverspace, sunspace, skyspace, hillspace, trees. Awareness. Location: Pavan Park, Lethbridge, AlbertaLength: 4kmCompanions: TroyDate: 28 March, 2020 [...]
