Here There, There Here, And Everywhere

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I’m so blown away by this. RO/LU‘s and welcomeprojects‘ project for this year’s High Desert Test Sites was called Here There, There Here. To call it a contemporary nod to earthworks almost feels backward; it’s like the earthworks movement was building to this.
It’s a two mile [!] strip of white felt run across the open desert outside Joshua Tree. While I was waiting for more photos to turn up, I kept seeing Here There, There Here everywhere:
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Richard Long’s 1967 work A Line Made By Walking [spotted on It’s Never Summer, Wayne Bremser’s tumblr]
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And then whenever I’d see a contrail across the sky. High fives all around, what a stunning project.