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Support Provided By On the shore of Utah s Great Salt Lake, a strange, almost-supernatural coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide can be seen. Its form seems cosmic, but its origins are entirely human. It is probably one of the most well-known land artworks to date: Robert Smithson s Spiral Jetty. Consisting primarily of black basalt rocks and salt crystals (as the lake is aptly named), this work changes with the water levels and will be experienced differently depending on the time of day. You can even view this work from the airplane if you are flying into Salt Lake airport. Spiral Jetty is one of many monumental works of art that started cropping up in the 1960s and 70s. Artist of the Land Art movement were using nature not only as a source of inspiration, but as a part of the artwork itself. Some of these works are temporary and others are permanent but what unites each of them is their use of the environment around them within their work. ....