From:
Bill Marsh <bmarsh54@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:12:39 -0500
Subject:
Michael Heizer Sculpture Project/Profile
Bill Smith wrote:
Quoted text begins.It's funny you mention Mound Builders and Heizer together. Heizer made
some mounds of his own overlooking the Illinois River on the site of a
reclaimed coal strip mine.
End of quote.
Bill,
Thanks for the info on Heizer. I've carried the spirit of those mounds
with me ever since living among them. There were some in the fields
surrounding my house. In fact, they were interspersed among several
housing subdivisions in the area. One was a favorite bike ramp for
local kids, which was somewhat horrifying. They were forever being
disturbed by local developers, and I would be called on to document the
emergency excavations by university archeologists. Heizer's concerns
about the future of his "City" brought all that back for me. We moderns
have very little respect, it seems, for things not made by contemporary
man, or even contemporary artists working in the same vein. Think of
the temple sculptures inundated by the Aswan Dam, for instance. It must
be devastating for Heizer, facing the prospect of the government
claiming his work by eminent domain.
Bill Marsh
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