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.