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Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Stocktaking America Deserta #3: Water Colours

July 06, 2017

The water at Rozel Point is not bright red anymore, but muted pink. At the time I visited the weather was stormy, the sun was heavily veiled by multiple layers of clouds and rainstorms in the distance. The experience was not of horror, on the contrary, but of beauty. This mobile phone photo doesn't do justice to an environment that seemed to be painted by J.M.W.Turner after having borrowed Agnes Martin's palette. I was still surprised to see such an animated landscape, which changed so quickly. Moments before, crossing the ranches framed by the Promontory Mountains, I had seen a 'dust devil' for the first time in my life, a whirlwind raising suddenly a dancing body of sand, which raised two arms in the air. It seemed alive and wickedly happy.

Tags: Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Earthworks, Great Salt Lake, Animated Landscape, Painterly Landscape, Prémio Fernando Távora
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