Sunday, November 8, 2020

From "Monuments for Nowhere or Anywhere" (1970) by Dore Ashton


"[Michael Heizer] keeps returning to the primeval wilderness to leave monumental reminders of his manliness there. He tunnels through the summit of an isolated plateau, at the expense of enormous energy and finance, but he is unwilling to conserve the results of his endeavour (Double Negative, above). Weather will ultimately erase his tracks which, by the logic of these monumental rebels against bourgeois values, justifies his position."

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