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Looking through Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels on the Lucin playa

Fig. 1Looking through Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels on the Lucin playa

Photo: Retis · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Nancy Holt’s concrete tunnels on the west-desert playa — land art aligned to solstice light.

Field note

The cylinders frame each other on the flat. Holes cut constellations in the concrete. This is Sun Tunnels near Lucin, not Spiral Jetty and not a salt-flat plate.

Sun Tunnels are Nancy Holt’s four concrete cylinders on the Lucin playa, aligned to the solstice sun, with star-holes cut through the walls. West-desert land art on the Great Basin floor — not Spiral Jetty, and not a salt-flat plate.

A private leaf

Prints from Sun Tunnels


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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