Utah's Spiral Jetty - An artist's work on nature's canvas
The Spiral Jetty was constructed in 1970 on the bed of the Great Salt Lake. The earthwork art by Robert Smithson has only been fully visible for a third of its life due to high water levels. It is well worth the 2 1/2-drive from Salt Lake City past the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Box Elder County. Part of the Utah Bucket List series from KUED and The Salt Lake Tribune:
Spiral Jetty Utah
This is a crude video showing you a birds eye view of the Spiral Jetty in Box Elder County Utah
SPIRAL JETTY Robert Smithson’s located Rozel Point northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah
SPIRAL JETTY Robert Smithson’s
located Rozel Point northeastern shore of
the Great Salt Lake in Utah
SPIRAL JETTY
GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH USA
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty,
located at Rozel Point on the
northeastern shore of
Great Salt Lake in Utah,
is one of the most remarkable
examples of Land art. In 1970,
assisted by a crew operating
dump trucks, a tractor,
and a front loader,
Smithson displaced some
6,000 tons of black basalt rock
and earth from the adjacent
shore to form a coil 1,500 feet long
and approximately 15 feet wide,
winding counterclockwise
into the lake.
Created at a time when water
levels were particularly low,
Spiral Jetty was
submerged in 1972.
Droughts caused the lake
to recede in 2002, and the
sculpture has remained
visible ever since.
“I like landscapes that
suggest prehistory,”
1 Smithson once observed.
The site of Spiral Jetty
was chosen by the artist
for the lake’s unusual
ecological and
geological properties.
The reddish coloration
of the water, caused by
the high presence of microbes,
initially attracted Smithson
to the north arm of the lake.
The spiral shape alludes to
the molecular lattice of the
salt-crystal deposits found
throughout the lake’s expanse,
and in forming the work,
he chose to use
basalt boulders of hardened
lava found along the peninsula,
scattered remnants of
the now extinct volcano’s in the area.
The fractured landscape,
fluctuating water levels,
and the water’s salinity also
speak of the artist’s preoccupation
with the concept of entropy.
Smithson envisioned an artwork
in a state of constant transformation
whose form is never fixed and
undergoes decay from the moment
of its creation.
His thinking was equally shaped
by his understanding of the
third law of thermodynamics
as well as a fascination in
science fiction and popular science.
As a path for walking and
looking, Spiral Jetty is a
sculpture to be experienced.
The act of traversing the earthwork
is a prominent image in the
eponymous film completed
months after Smithson
built the sculpture.
Along with aerial shots of
Spiral Jetty is a sequence of
images of the artist running
on the sculpture.
Reaching the innermost point,
Smithson gazes out at
the spiral path, lake,
and mountains.
Spiral Jetty serves as a site
from which to view the
surroundings—the prehistoric
environment that
Smithson selected for it.
Robert Smithson
was born in
Passaic, New Jersey,
in 1938.
He died in Amarillo, Texas,
in 1973.
Directions:
Spiral Jetty is an approximate
2.5-hour drive from
Salt Lake City. Utah
From Salt Lake City,
take I-15 north for 65 miles.
Take Exit 365. Turn right onto
UT Route 13 (toward Corrine).
A gas station is located in Corinne.
Continue west for 18 miles
(UT Route 13 becomes Highway 83).
Follow signs to the Golden Spike
National Historic Site
(GSNHS) Visitor Center.
Turn left onto Golden Spike Road
and continue 7.7 miles to
the GSNHS Visitor Center.
There are bathrooms
at the visitor center.
Cell phone reception ends.
From the visitor center,
drive 5.6 miles west on
the main gravel road
(N Golden Spike Loop).
At the fork in the road,
continue left (west).
There are signs directing
you toSpiral Jetty.
Drive 1.4 miles.
At the fork in the road,
turn right (southwest).
Continue driving for
approximately 9 miles.
The road will curve north
around Rozel Point.
The road ends at a cul-de-sac
parking lot directly above
Spiral Jetty.
Credits
Dia Art Foundation
Spiral Jetty
Great Salt Lake at Rozel Point
Box Elder County Utah
diaart.org
1 Robert Smithson,
“Conversation in Salt Lake City
(1972),” in Robert Smithson:
Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam
(Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1996), p. 298.
CONTACT
For general inquiries
related to Spiral Jetty,
please contact
spiraljetty@diaart.org.
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Great Salt Lake at Rozel Point
Box Elder County Utah
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Salt Lake Spiral Jetty - Sanpete County Adventure - Maverick Trail Review - Water Traditions
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Season 16 Episode 43
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Spiral Jetty - Alaska in Springtime - Can-Am Commander XT Review - Red Bull X-Alps Event
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The Man in the Mirror
♫ Man in the Mirror♫
PROMONTORY, Box Elder County — You can certainly hear Gustav Troger walking from a mile away.
Thing is, you just might not be able to see him even when he gets close.
I, myself, disappear and actually just people are showing around me. It's like an empty, animated void, if you want to call it like this, the Austrian artist says, describing the effect of his mirror suit.
His entire body is covered, even his face, by hundreds of small mirrors.
Troger's whole goal for creating Mirror Man is to have people question reality by looking at him, and seeing themselves instead.
He feels it's a unique way for people to notice the world around them by looking through him.
The suit is almost like a painting brush, Troger says. It's almost like a machine. I'm not represented as a human or as a figure. The audience is represented in my body of mirrors.
Troger travels around the world to have pictures taken of him in his mirror suit at interesting places.
He's been to Monument Valley, the Great Wall of China, Taiwan and, recently, visited the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Box Elder County.
As he walks, the hundreds of mirror make a clanking sound.
People look right away to see what that unique sound is; then they grab their cameras.
Troger loves the reaction.
It's sort of testing reality. What is reality about? That's why all reality really exists in the minds of people and the history of people, he says.
He also visited the Spiral Jetty nearby on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. This year, it was underwater.
But when he visited two years ago, it was above water, and he was able to capture some of his favorite photos of himself in the Mirror Man suit.
He says Robert Smithson, the man who created the Spiral Jetty, is an artist who inspired him to create the suit.
Troger hopes to put together a book of his travels with the Mirror Man suit, including pictures of him and people's reactions.
He's also hoping to travel more and take lots of pictures.
Actually, this is like a celebration of certain places, Troger says.
The suit is almost like a painting brush. It's almost like a machine. I'm not represented as a human or as a figure. The audience is represented in my body of mirrors.
--Gustav Troger
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