Police have said the dismantling may not be illegal since no one has claimed the structure as their property. The intense social media reaction to the monolith against the backdrop of the punishing pandemic, along with the quick disappearance of the piece, has become a part of its story, she said. “That’s a big, big part of land art in general is this idea of an experience, of a journey,” she said.
Like those pieces, the monolith was fascinating in part because of its context in the landscape, said Whitney Tassie, a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Art. Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is an earthwork along the Great Salt Lake and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels are huge concrete pieces in the desert. The Utah creation evoked famous land-art pieces that dot the West. Officials said the visitors flattened plants with their cars and left behind human waste.Ī structure that appeared last week in Romania is also gone. Two extreme sports athletes said they were part of a group that tore down the hollow metal structure because they were worried about the damage the droves of visitors were causing to the relatively untouched spot.
Anything that gets people excited is a good thing.”Īnother monolith spotted two weeks ago in Utah's otherworldly red-rock country became a beacon of fascination around the world as it evoked the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” and drew hundreds of people to the remote spot. He had planned to hike up to see the structure. "Bummer," Matt Cadaret, a gravedigger at a nearby cemetery, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “The monolith was something unique and fun in an otherwise stressful time.” “That’s been about the strangest thing that I’ve come across out there in all my years of flying,” Hutchings said.“We are upset that these young men felt the need to drive 5 hours to come into our community and vandalize the monolith,” Mayor Heather Moreno said in a press release. Hutchings said he had seen many unusual things from the helicopter over the years, but never anything quite like this. The group left with pictures and videos but few answers. “I’m assuming it’s some new wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big (2001: A Space Odyssey) fan,” Hutchings said, referencing a scene in the movie.īecause the monolith was in an area the crew feared amateur adventurers might get stuck, they were intentionally vague about its location.
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