If you live in the mid-city neighborhood of Los Angeles, chances are you have noticed a massive rock on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At first glance you would think this rock may have come from some nearby place in Los Angeles, but on the contrary this rock has had quite a journey. Quarried from somewhere in the hot desert of Arizona, the rock was then loaded onto a massive hydraulic truck only to begin a slow month long journey to our city of Los Angeles. In the wee hours of the night in June of 2012, the rock made it's final descent into the pre-made cement holding place behind LACMA where it will live for a very long time.
the most interesting aspect of this sculpture is the fact that you can walk under the 340 ton rock with ease! A special cement walkway was constructed to hold the rock and allow viewers to go where no man has gone before with such a massive object. The sculpture changes our perception of the world around us and challenges our previous ideas about a rock of this size.
the most interesting aspect of this sculpture is the fact that you can walk under the 340 ton rock with ease! A special cement walkway was constructed to hold the rock and allow viewers to go where no man has gone before with such a massive object. The sculpture changes our perception of the world around us and challenges our previous ideas about a rock of this size.
Artist and photographer Michael Heizer was responsible for bringing this massive earth creature to us, but this is not the first time he has brought the art world such formations. Michael Heizer travels to various places in the world to find specific rocks that he uses as photo models. He measures the size and possible weight of the rock then takes photos of the rock using professional cameras. To put the finishing touches on the work of art, he uses computers and large printers to print his photographs in the "actual size" of the rocks. The result are life size photographs that stretch from floor to ceiling and give the viewer the feeling as if the flat photo is three dimensionally popping off the wall.
Please make your way over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA
and take the huge elevator up to the top floor of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum
to see Michael Heizner's photos and rock sculpture.
Photos on the top floor of Broad Contemporary
The rock on the hydraulic truck leaving Arizona
Yes, I walked under it. It's safe.
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