Yosemite National Park

After looking at all the amazing Land Art in Utah and Nevada, the inspiration was flowing. In beautiful Yosemite National Park we hiked to Mirror Lake, between eating sandwiches and looking at bears and butterflies we built, as we say in Swedish, ”barkbåtar” and set them to sail.

Sailing on Mirror Lake

Setting sail

Fredrik Streiffert who is an excellent photographer (took all these images), build a small but fierce boat. Perhaps he was too courageous when he added stone cargo on it? When the race started race, my more sturdy floater took the lead…

Boat with cargo

The Survivor

In the end ”The Survivor” stayed up the longest and the small boat flipped over with cargo and everything. ”The Survivor” set sail and was cheered on by bathers and children, until it found a new shore, in a other corner of the lake.

Sun Tunnels

Outside the ghost town Lucin in Utah can you find Nancy Holt’s piece ’Sun Tunnels’. Approaching from a distance we could see them appear like small brown cattle and then we saw the hollowness. Walking around them, through them and between them, they really create a atmosphere, a room in the middle of the open field. We spend around 5 hours there, Fredrik was time lapsing and I taking pictures, we had a late lunch and saw the light shift. A pleasant day in the dessert.

Holt has said this about her open air sculptures:

”It is a very desolate area, but it is totally accessible, and it can be easily visited, making Sun Tunnels more accessible really than art in museums . . . A work like Sun Tunnels is always accessible . . . Eventually, as many people will see Sun Tunnels as would see many works in a city-in a museum anyway.”

All pictures taken by Fredrik Streiffert. Project sponsored by American Embassy Stockholm.

American White Pelican

Everywhere me and Fredrik travel, we love to look at birds: small birds, big birds, gray birds, colorful birds, rare or common birds ; they all have our attention. We became overwhelmed in Utah, a paradise for people with a interest for birds. I have never see the American White Pelican and too see them traveling together, floating on the winds, was true magic.

Pelican, pelican, pelican

Pelican

This was also the first time I saw my favorite bird, owls in the wild.

Owl

Two owls

Falcon

Pictures are taken by Fredrik Streiffert, except the Falcon image that I was lucky enough to capture!

Bird lover

The Spiral Jetty

The Spiral Jetty was made 1970 by Robert Smithson. It is located near Rozel Point in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. When we visited the water levels where so hight the Spiral Jetty was under water. Waking or driving next to the shore it was hard to see it and we spend quite some time looking for it. The lovley photographer Fredrik figured out that climbing up on the ream, it was easier to spot, so no wonder I look so happy when I finally saw it!

Finally found it!

9 miles

The Great Salt Lake

View from Rozel Point

Photos by Fredrik Streiffert

The final show is now up in Pratt Manhattan Gallery at W 144 14th Street, it is a beautiful show lots and of great artist! Tonight I will fly to Salt Lake City as a first stop on my two week road trip with photographer Fredrik Streiffert. We are excited, and our main focus for our road trip will be American Land Art, with sponsorship from American Embassy in Stockholm and time-lapse photography. Wish us good luck!