A first-hand look at experiencing the artist's monumental land art sculpture, now open to the public after five decades in the making.
On Alamo’s main street, our group gathers around noon at the offices of The Triple Aught Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to maintain thewhich sits on land that was declared a national monument during the Obama administration through the work of the late Sen. Harry Reid and which has been created within the ancestral territories of the Nuwu and Newe peoples.
At first, there appears to be no trace of a city of any sort amid the stark terrain. Then, like a mirage, thecomes into view — a metropolis constructed of geometric forms, mounds and depressions made of compacted dirt, rock and concrete. Theis so large, everyone and everything is small. Shadows rapidly traverse the vast land as the sun throws itself deep west. One’s imagination fills in the holes.
Michael Heizer’s the City, 1970 –2022. “It’s fairly self-sustaining,” says Kara Vander Weg, board member of the Triple Aught Foundation. “It’s natural material taken from the site and replaced on the site. The dirt is from the site, the rock is from the site, the concrete is poured on-site.”According to Kara Vander Weg, senior director at Gagosian Gallery and board member of the Triple Aught Foundation, every one of my feelings is justified.
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