Whether you consider yourself artist or artisan, huckster or provocateur, in 2020 you have accomplished something singular. Out of the ordinary you’ve created wonder, shown us beauty, and inspired. You have drawn attention to our society’s impact upon the land, while perhaps inadvertently exposing our cultural ethos of ritualistically if not disingenuously destroying things we don’t agree with. More notably, you have demonstrated a level of patience that is now truly rare.
The location was perfect, I believe you chose carefully. The object was physically impressive, the attention to detail I believe to be both exceptional and intended.
My grandmother was a sculptor and I feel fortunate to have personally experienced the wonderment of what you offered us. Although it cannot possibly replace what was taken, I have something for you.
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Happy New Year to all, and hopefully we'll see a 2021 that is mostly unlike the year of 2020.
Panoramic composite image of the Utah Monolith and Zodiacal Light, that is, sunlight that is being reflected back from interplanetary dust in our solar system. Canon 5Ds and Tamron 35/1.4:
Whilst it is a good photograph, surely I can't be the only person to feel that there was no artistic intent involved in placing this piece of scrap metal in what is obviously a very picturesque natural scene.
As similar structures have appeared all around the world this seems to be some of stunt carried out for an as yet unknown reason, but I doubt that art had anything to do with it.
Clicky94 wrote:
Whilst it is a good photograph, surely I can't be the only person to feel that there was no artistic intent involved in placing this piece of scrap metal in what is obviously a very picturesque natural scene.
As similar structures have appeared all around the world this seems to be some of stunt carried out for an as yet unknown reason, but I doubt that art had anything to do with it.
Regardless of whether it's art, its placement is destructive to the few wild places we have left in America. I can't blame anyone for taking a photo of it, but cannot condone what the maker of the piece did any more than I could condone the graffiti on rocks at Dead Horse Point or on canyon walls. Even if the graffiti is "artistic", the principle is the same.
