#earthworks — Public Fediverse posts
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#January 2, 1938
#OTD #RobertSmithson, American #Artist & #Photographer, is born.He loved #Sculpture & helped found the #Land #Art #Movement.
He wrote,
"When a finished work of 20th-century sculpture is
Placed in an 18th-century #Garden,
It is #Absorbed by the #Ideal representation of the #Past,
Reinforcing #Political & #Social #Values that are no longer with us."#Gardening #Gardener #GardenersofMastodon
#SpiralJetty #Art #Gallery #Earthworks
#BrokenCircle #SpiralHill #AmarilloRamp -
@inti
Another #GreatCircle etched on #PachaMama, smaller than Tumi Chucua #Zanja, larger than the #Newark Great Circle. The three circles in my graphic illustrate their relative sizes.
The tiny circle in the center is the margin of error for their center-on-center arc distances ratio from Eagle Mound at the center of Newark's Great Circle. The ratio is #Phi squared to one, 2.618034 to 1.0.
Phi is 1.618034...
#archaeology #geodesy #mathematics #earthworks #prehistory #Colorado #Ohio #Bolivia