Sun Tunnels
ARTIST: Nancy Holt ARTWORK: Sun Tunnels DATE: Completed in 1976. MATERIALS: 4 concrete tubes @ 18 feet long x 9 ft. diameter LOCATION: Lucin, Utah We left the hotel room at around 3:30 am to drive a gravel two-track amid a barren desert scape. Our goal was to watch the new day's light rise up and through one of Nancy Holt's concrete tunnels. On the solstices, the tunnels frame the sun as it passes the horizon at sunrise and sunset, and we were hoping to witness this unf