Theme
Land Art
6 destinations along 6 roads
Land art uses the ground itself as material, which is what separates it from a roadside oddity. Robert Smithson laid the Spiral Jetty out of Great Salt Lake's own basalt in 1970, and the lake decides whether you see it — submerged for three decades, salt-crusted and walkable in drought. Ricardo Breceda's metal beasts run loose across open desert at Borrego Springs. Two answer a ruin that came first: plaster shrouds at Rhyolite, upended cars at Goldfield. And Salvation Mountain is not art-world work at all — thirty years of one man's donated paint, and it never pretended otherwise.