Sunday 25 November 2012

Levitated Mass at LACMA


When I lived in Massachusetts, I found Plymouth Rock to be, well, quite small. Rather disappointing. At least as a rock.

Great, in terms of historical significance.

So when all the hoopla was going on in Los Angeles to get a big rock from a quarry near Riverside to its final destination at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I was hoping it really was a BIG rock.

At 340-tons, it surely should be grand.

And it is....up close.


North of the Resnick Pavilion is a large expanse of gravel.


A concrete channel holds up the mass and allows visitors to walk towards and under the Levitated Mass.


Because the museum itself is large and sprawling and it sits inside a city that is also large and sprawling surrounded by enormously tall palm trees, the rock only seems mammoth when you get quite close.

And then it truly is impressive.







2 comments:

  1. H-e-a-v-y. Loved your perspective on this. The last shot is art.

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  2. For further details about Levitated Mass (press review, photos, videos, pre-history, etc.), please visit this link: http://obsart.blogspot.fr/2012/01/levitated-mass-1968-1983-pre-history.html or this one http://obsart.blogspot.fr/2012/02/340t-340g-heizer-perray-usa-fr-280212.html (for transatlantic action, expanded thoughts, articles, maps, etc.)
    Very best

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