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

ARTIST: Robert Smithson ART: Spiral Jetty DATE: 1970 MATERIALS: 1,500-foot-long, black basalt coil. LOCATION: Salt Lake, Utah (Rozel Point) In April 1970, two dump trucks, a tractor, and a front loader began moving the 6,650 tons of rock and earth needed to create Spiral Jetty. A film crew recorded the venture, and Smithson directed rock placement to the workers. Despite how disruptive this process sounds, the Spiral Jetty now seems at home in this vast, deafly quiet la