Media: Concrete
Dimensions: 26 m long
Date: 1973-1976
Nancy Holt was born in 1938 in Worcester, Massachussetts and graduated from Tufts University in Medford. Holt started her artistic career as a photographer, but is most noted for her monumental land-art and environmental projects. She married environmental artist Robert Smithon in 1963. Holt's fascination with land-art came from a desire to change how art is viewed and perceived. Due to its scale, a visitor does not just view land-art, but is surrounded by it and becomes part of it. In her projects, she focuses on the perception of surroundings in relationship to the passage of time. She tries to tie into this construct a "connection between the Earth and its place in the solar system and the universe".
These concepts are present in her "Sun Tunnels" in the Great Basin Desert in Utah. Each tunnel is aligned differently in respect to time of day, as well as summer/winter solstices, creating different interactions between the artwork and the natural light. According to Holt, "it’s an inversion of the sky/ground relationship-bringing the sky down to the Earth."
Nancy Holt at the Graham Foundation
"http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/3611-nancy-holt-sightlines
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