Getting strange with land art.
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I'm Jonathan Thompson, a journalist, a writer, an observer, a pathological doodler and a sometime photographer. Images and text are mine, except when they aren't (in which case I'll let it be known). I'm based in Durango, Colorado, and the world. I have another blog here: http://www.jonathanpthompson.blogspot.com
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July 11, 2012
July 11, 2012
Sun Tunnels, by Nancy Holt, a monumental art work built near the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1976. More on Land Art, the Anthropocene and the Sublime in my story for High Country News.
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June 25, 2012
Rocks #1. Butler Wash, Utah.
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June 25, 2012
May 14, 2012
Sandstone spiral. Utah.
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April 8, 2012
America the Beautiful. Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Utah.
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March 31, 2012
The power grid. Eastern Nevada. March 2012
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March 23, 2012
On the way to Double Negative, Nevada.
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March 23, 2012
I didn’t follow the directions. And then I walked all day in the desert. I found a spider. And a post that said Old Spanish Trail. I found balloons, deflated, that maybe flew there all the way from Las Vegas. Then I found Double Negative, by Michael Heizer, a big trench dug in the edge of Mormon Mesa in Nevada. It is art. I took my clothes off, and I ran around, and my camera took this photo.
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February 5, 2012
Shiprock (geological formation, above) and San Juan Generating Station (industrial facility, below).
Google Earth/maps have changed the way we see our world. They show us violence and destruction where before we may have seen just a rock formation. They reveal strange beauty where before we may have only seen a pollution-belching coal-fired power plant that generates electricity for 1 million households.
Shiprock is a huge volcanic feature located in northwestern New Mexico. San Juan Generating Station and an associated coal mine lies about 24 miles east/northeast from Shiprock.
It’s just one of the things I’ve been thinking about lately.
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