Earthworks Observational Kits in the Faculty Show

Earthworks Observational Kit: Double Negative
Wooden box, Golden Nature Guide to Rocks and Minerals, bandages for impending injuries, matches for the impromptu fire pit & notebook for the Geocaching box on the North Cut
2015 - 2016

Earthworks Observational Kit: Roden Crater (Unobserved)
Wooden box & green ribbon closest to the color of money 
2015 - 2016 

Earthworks Observational Kit: Spiral Jetty
Wooden box, paper to soak in the Great Salt Lake and plastic bags for storage, specimen bottles and tags for saltwater samples, rocks to make a mini-version of the jetty & empty Epic Brewery Spiral Jetty India Pale Ale bottle (to be substituted with a full one)
2015 - 2016

Donald Abad's "I Did Not Own the Roden Crater"

Video still from Donald Abad's I Did Not Own the Roden Crater

One of my favorite parts about visiting all the major earthworks in the Western US is receiving emails from people who have done the same. Donald Abad emailed this link today with the video I Did Not Own the Roden Crater. He visited the same year we did and had  similar experiences with the man in the SUV watching over him in parts of the video, another man driving up in a truck to explain that the crater is closed, interactions with a barbed wire fence, and so on. Abad flies a kite while we flew balloons. I imagine they see it all from atop the crater. I'm looking forward to his return trip and what it produces in 2014.

I've often thought of the art I would make now about returning since all of the pieces have been experienced first hand. I have always known I will see the inside of Roden Crater but it probably won't be until after Turrell has passed away and it's opened to the general public in some capacity. I will be the white haired lady reminiscing about toasting beer to the guard on the ridge way back in 2010 or sneaking past the fence a few yards and burying an object from the past. In all likelihood, I will remain silent and not reveal a thing.

Here's Looking at You James Turrell

Three Hours and Nine Minutes Away From Roden Crater

Clouds Part 2

Gabriel Orozco, 1994

James Turrell, Roden Crater

Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalents

Ann Stautberg, 9-6-98 Texas Coast, 1999

Alec Soth, Bonnie (with a photograph of an Angel), Port Gibson, Mississippi

Lorna Simpson, Cloud, 2005

Gerhard Richter, Rooms, 1970

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Suspension, 1999-2000

Eadweard Muybridge

Vik Muniz, The Rower, 1993

Richard Misrach, Cloud #240, 1993

Pedro Meyer, Las Vegas, 1998

Snow Part 2

Hmmm... new snow accumulation, no school Friday, Kool-Aid in the cupboard.... snow cakes tomorrow?



Karen Laval, Untitled #1 (Norway), 2003-2004


Scott Peterman, Papoose, 2003



Thomas Flechtner, Passes #51, 2001


Amy Blakemore, Dog in Snow, 2003


David Hockney, Gregory Watching the Snow Fall, Kyoto, 1983
Alexis Pike, Snow Pile from Claimed: Landscape

Olafur Eliasson, Your Waste of Time, 2006

"Several blocks of ice from Vatnajökull, the largest glacier in Iceland, were removed from the glacial lake Jökulsarion ... Part of the ice is thought to have been formed around AD 1200. Weighing 6 tons in all, the blocks were transported to a Berlin gallery where they were exhibited in a refrigerated space." Via.

Dennis Oppenheim, Annual Rings, 1968


Joseph O. Holmes, The Urban Wilderness


Wilson "Snowflake Bentley: "Fascinated by the snow crystals and their composition this man was the first person to successfully produce a photograph of snow or ice crystals. He did this by magnifying the crystals he gathered at 69 to 3,000 times on glass plates...He attached bellows to the microscope, along with wood splints, turkey feathers and a black board. Through the images he captured he discovered that every ice crystal is unique and grows symmetrically in a 6-sided hexagon around a tiny nucleus." Via.


Bruce Davidson, Winter in Paris

Paula McCartney encore


Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty by Greg Lindquist


James Turrell, Roden Crater with Snow, nd