Image: Burger King, West Wendover

Yesterday I made the trip to Spiral Jetty (1970). Leaving from Salt Lake City it was an easy hour and forty minute drive up the I-15 and over Promontory to Rozel Point. The State has recently built a new road leading all the way to the Jetty, this was explained to us by local day-trippers, there to see where their money had gone (or indeed led them to). One such family utilised the two peculiar foreigners who were boiling pasta behind a small dry-stone wall - Fred and I will be starring in “Lost Puppies: Spiral Jetty” appearing on youtube presently, apparently.

It is widely reported that experiencing Land Art in person is the only way to really understand it. I have never particularly ‘liked’ Smithson’s Jetty, the documented images and cultural hype led me to think of it as contrived. But having walked it and viewed it from the hill behind, curling into itself, surrounded by the pink coloured water of the Great Salt Lake, I feel like I appreciate it better.

Wednesday 6th April