I saw an article by Ward Clark about a garbage piece of garbage art. And although I, of course, thought of our garbage president and his labeling of half the country as “garbage,” I wanted to add my take on modern art, aka: Hot Garbage.
Back in 2007, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art spent a little under $10,000,000 on a 340-ton rock. The museum constructed a building to house it. Kind of. Technically, it’s a concrete trench, aka a walking path. The rock finder, aka “sculptor,” is Michael Heizer. Mr. Heizer started his search for his massive rock 55 years ago. In 2006, Heizer was in Riverside one day and, eureka! A rock. Heizer rushed to tell the museum his wonderous news — like he was Indiana Jones, and he had found the Holy Grail. He announced that he had found a rock in a rock quarry. You can imagine – the curators were ecstatic….
