More on Spirals: The Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) is one of the most well known examples of “Land Art”. It took about two weeks and two tries to get in place, moving 6000 tons of basalt with heavy equipment.
One could perhaps see it as a culturally collective symbol of the emergence of the feminine.
However, I would note that it is in a very isolated place in Utah, it is not really user friendly, and the stones were put in place by machine rather than hand; ie. it is about the feminine, but not femine.
It also just seems wrong to disturb nature so much.
Smithson completed the project when he was 34; he died a year later in an airplane crash when he was surveying for another project.
Note that the spiral goes counter-clockwise, i.e., towards the unconscious.
For information from the Holt and Smithson Foundation.