![]() In 2002 Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" emerged once again from the surface of Utah's Great Salt Lake. These images were taken by Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Nancy Holt captured this image from a helicopter in 1995. In 1993 Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" emerged from the Great Salt Lake for the first time in twenty years-bright white, encrusted in salt against the red waters of the Great Salt Lake. This image of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was taken by Atsushi Fujie in November of 1990. At that time, the level of the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake was 4,203 feet-8 feet higher than the lake levels when "Spiral Jetty" was built in 1970. Nancy Holt took this photograph of Robert Smithson sitting on the edge of "Spiral Jetty" in August of 1971, a little over a year after the earthwork’s completion. In this clip of 16mm film we see Robert Smithson with his friend and fellow artist Richard Serra staking out the path of the earthwork in the Great Salt Lake during April of 1970. At that time the level of the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake was 4,195 feet as recorded by the United States Geological Survey. We begin with images taken by Robert Smithson during and shortly after the construction of Spiral Jetty in April of 1970. Learn more about the World Weather Network. Thank you to Hikmet Loe for sharing her research on the changing conditions at Spiral Jetty on her website and for her guidance on this project. In our Instagram series of weather reports from the history of Spiral Jetty we will be sharing unseen film footage from its construction, as well as images of the earthwork immersed under water, of its reappearance in the 1990s covered with salt crystals, and of the situation today. See the Dispatch Log below for links to each individual post. The current water level of the Great Salt Lake is at its lowest since records began. In its half-century lifetime, Spiral Jetty’s visibility and relationship to the site have changed as the waters of the lake have risen and then dropped following years of sustained drought and water diversion. Constructed from 6,650 tons of rock and earth, the spiral continuously changes form as nature, industry, and time take their effect. In 2022, fifty-two years after it was created, Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is a barometer for the climate emergency. To kick-off our participation in the World Weather Network-a worldwide constellation of 28 arts agencies formed in response to the climate crisis-we will be looking at the changing conditions at Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty since its completion in 1970.
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