The late artist Nancy Holt, Smithson’s widow, donated “Spiral Jetty” to the Dia Art Foundation ... (such as no foot access, taking rocks, building fire pits, or littering), and Utah moved ...
Spiral Jetty is one of the world’s most famous works of land art: art that’s created directly ... and arranged 6,000 tons of local black basalt rock into a 1,500-foot-long, protruding line ...
Smithson sculpted basalt rock, salt crystals ... in entropy and an important icon of Land Art. However, it also contributed to Spiral Jetty‘s relative obscurity at the time.