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Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson, Rozel Point Great Salt Lake Utah, 32 min. colour, 1970.


The leaking of time drives you to build a passage out of the archaic drain of the Great Salt Lake. You decide to bridge the time intervals most distant to you - the archezoic grounds your first step on Mars. The act of building and the editing of the film compose your time machine, one that “transforms trucks into dinosaurs,” one that captures the loss of energy in the shape of a spiral: mud, salt, crystals, rocks, w