Nancy Holt: Sun Tunnels postcard
This rare postcard was made for Nancy Holt following the completion of her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels in 1976. One side shows a map with directions marked from Salt Lake City, and the other gives textual instructions.
Nancy Holt’s large-scale earthwork Sun Tunnels sits on the horizon line of a valley in Utah’s Great Basin Desert and is visible from over a mile away. The work is comprised of four concrete cylinders, arranged in a cross formation. They are positioned to frame the sun as it rises and sets during the summer and winter solstices – the longest and shortest days of the year. Small configurations of holes are punctured in the concrete, using the light emanating from the sun and moon to cast projections of star pattern constellations along the tunnel interiors.
Holt was fascinated by the landscape in the west of the United States and found its vast openness overwhelming. When standing inside the Sun Tunnels, the desert’s immensity is framed by the circular tunnels to bring, as Holt described it, “the vast space of the desert back to human scale.”
Specifications
Black and white, with red ink highlighting the route
120 x 209 mm / 4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
$150
This rare postcard was made for Nancy Holt following the completion of her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels in 1976. One side shows a map with directions marked from Salt Lake City, and the other gives textual instructions.
Nancy Holt’s large-scale earthwork Sun Tunnels sits on the horizon line of a valley in Utah’s Great Basin Desert and is visible from over a mile away. The work is comprised of four concrete cylinders, arranged in a cross formation. They are positioned to frame the sun as it rises and sets during the summer and winter solstices – the longest and shortest days of the year. Small configurations of holes are punctured in the concrete, using the light emanating from the sun and moon to cast projections of star pattern constellations along the tunnel interiors.
Holt was fascinated by the landscape in the west of the United States and found its vast openness overwhelming. When standing inside the Sun Tunnels, the desert’s immensity is framed by the circular tunnels to bring, as Holt described it, “the vast space of the desert back to human scale.”
Specifications
Black and white, with red ink highlighting the route
120 x 209 mm / 4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
$150
This rare postcard was made for Nancy Holt following the completion of her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels in 1976. One side shows a map with directions marked from Salt Lake City, and the other gives textual instructions.
Nancy Holt’s large-scale earthwork Sun Tunnels sits on the horizon line of a valley in Utah’s Great Basin Desert and is visible from over a mile away. The work is comprised of four concrete cylinders, arranged in a cross formation. They are positioned to frame the sun as it rises and sets during the summer and winter solstices – the longest and shortest days of the year. Small configurations of holes are punctured in the concrete, using the light emanating from the sun and moon to cast projections of star pattern constellations along the tunnel interiors.
Holt was fascinated by the landscape in the west of the United States and found its vast openness overwhelming. When standing inside the Sun Tunnels, the desert’s immensity is framed by the circular tunnels to bring, as Holt described it, “the vast space of the desert back to human scale.”
Specifications
Black and white, with red ink highlighting the route
120 x 209 mm / 4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
$150