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A sculptural sundial in northwestern Utah, Nancy Holt's ode to the eternal speaks to the boundless horizon of design.
L I G H T S O U R C E
W R I T T E N B Y J E N N T H O R N T O N
Assume for a moment that the Great Basin Desert in northwestern Utah is not a peculiar place for a New Englander to find herself. e
late land artist Nancy Holt, who was originally from Massachusetts and raised in New Jersey, took to this barren, even a touch forbidding,
landscape with great and sustaining interest, using it to backdrop her rhapsodic work Sun Tunnels. Comprised of four concrete tubes arranged
in an open X formation, the work sits on a patch of flat, cracked clay desert floor and is more than what it appears to be—minimalist modern
art in the middle of nowhere. But, rather, the work of a visionary whose creations straddled art and environmental activism.
