Saturday, August 25, 2012

Levitated Mass


Levitated Mass by artist Michael Heizer is composed of a 456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus, over which is placed a 340-ton granite megalith, held up only by Chloe Krueger!  The slot gradually descends to fifteen feet in depth, running underneath the boulder.  Heizer conceived the art installation in 1969 but only discovered an appropriate boulder decades later, in Riverside County.