A Utah student decided to dedicate her master’s thesis to the pursuit of getting a historic piece of LAND ART inscribed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
‘Spiral Jetty,’ a famous creation on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, becomes the first feature of the Land Art movement to make it onto the registry.
Getting a property placed on the registry, which protects places of historic significance to America—such as Waldon Pond in Massachusetts— was one of several tasks that Amy Reid, who now holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from Utah State University, wanted to accomplish.
Spiral Jetty is a testament to creator Robert Smithson, who created the earthwork in the spring of 1970 on the northeastern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
Constructed from 6,650 tons of rock and earth gathered directly from the site, the spiral continuously changes form as nature, industry, and time take effect.
