Spiral Jetty

The image I chose is a picture of a canyon wall the was cut and shaped by weather. This image could be related to both Spiral Jetty and Splitting. The picture that I found is a canyon that was weathered out by water. The interesting thing is that this sculpture was created naturally with out any help from an artist. This sculpture may have taken longer to create but it still can be seen as a work similar to that of Smithson's Spiral Jetty. The major difference is that the Spiral Jetty was created by an artist who had a specific plan and wanted to show how he could create art by building and shaping nature. The Spiral Jetty took only a few years to make while the canyon took hundreds of years to make. Both these structures have changed part of nature. The Spiral Jetty can still be seen today and both these structures will remain for many years to come. What interested me about this picture was how nature creates works of art. Often it seems artists are just imitating something that has already been done by nature but they make their work unique by putting their own touch to it. It is still interesting to see how an artist like Smithson could create a natural looking structure that is as large as Spiral Jetty and have it last for over 30 years.