Earth Artist Michael Heizer

I think Earth Art is very cool in how ambitious and unique many of the works are and one artist in particular who I think is interesting is American artist Michael Heizer. I read this New Yorker article about him a while ago, and if you're interested in Earth Art it's a good read:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city. Heizer is a relatively well-known figure in Earth Art whose works, like others in the movement, are often on a grand scale and use natural materials like rocks. One of his first works in this genre was Double Negative (1970), which consists of two massive trenches/gaps dug into the side of a mesa using dynamite in a mesa in the Nevada desert. The work creates an interest effect of a sort of gash in the Earth where a massive amount of dirt is missing. It's also difficult to reach as the cliff where it is located and viewable from is miles away from the nearest town in the middle of a desert. Another cool piece of his that I have actually seen in person is Levitated Mass, which is installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is basically a giant rock that Heizer transported from a nearby mountain range and placed over a concrete trench that viewers can walk under. I'll put pictures of both of these works below so you can see what they look like, but in person Levitated Mass is cool to see as you can really feel the weight of the rock overhead when you walk underneath it. Lastly, his most impressive work in terms of scale, which he is still working on, is a monumental sculpture also in the Nevada desert called City. It's inspired by ancient monument cities and earthworks and is over a mile long. It consists of various giant slabs, pyramids, and mounds. Heizer has been working on City for many years, living in the desert and using bulldozers and other machines to construct the work, and it is scheduled to open in the next few years. There aren't many pictures of the site as it's closed to the public for now, but you can see some of them below too.