Emma Watson Instagram – Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt 1977 🌞 •The Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt were built in 1977 on forty acres in Great Basin Desert in northwestern Utah• “Initially there was no alignment between Land art and environmentalism. Many early Land artworks actively damaged the land. Holt was one of the first artists to use outdoor art as a platform for environmental activism. She introduced ideas central to environmental protection, conservation, and stewardship that were not initially central to the art movement.” — The Art Story “Time” is not just a mental concept or a mathematical abstraction in the desert. The rocks in the distance are ageless; they have been deposited in layers over hundreds of thousands of year. “Time” takes on a physical presence. Only ten miles south of Sun Tunnels are the Bonneville Salt Flats, one of the few areas in the world where you can actually see the curvature of the earth. Being part of that kind of landscape, and walking on earth that has surely never been walked on before, evokes a sense of being on this planet, rotating in space, in universal time … I wanted to bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale.” — HOLT, NANCY. “SUN TUNNELS.” ARTFORUM VOL.15, NO.8 (APRIL, 1977).