Double Negative
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| An earthwork created by the artist Michael Heizer in 1969 and 1970. The piece consists of two gouges in the edge of a mesa, in southern Nevada. The 30 foot wide, 50 foot deep cuts, made by dynamite and bulldozers, face each other from either side of a "scallop" on the eroded edge of the natural landform, suggesting a continuous, invisible, negative form between them. The piece, totaling almost 1,500 feet from end to end (including the space between), is now property of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. |
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50 miles NE of Las Vegas, Five miles E of Overton
(POINT(-114.3445122242 36.614390896631))
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Clark County |
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| Overton is about an hour north of Las Vegas. Drive from Overton to the Overton airport (there are signs for the airport off the main highway). Continue past the airport main gate on the paved road heading east towards the mesa (this is Mormon Mesa Road). The road turns to dirt after a mile, then rises up the side of the mesa. A sandy spot near the top sometimes makes this road impassable, though even sedans can sometimes make it through to the top with a running start. At the cattleguard at the top of the mesa, take the middle of three roads. Its is four miles to Double Negative from here. After three miles, at the first of three scallops in the edge of the mesa, turn left off the main road (as the road heads down the mesa towards the river at this point). Continue along the edge of the mesa past the second scallop, then bear right at the third scallop (4.2 miles form the cattleguard), and you should see the southwest part of the sculpture. (If the road is impassable, ask at the airport for the number of a local pilot who might be able to fly you over the sculpture.) |
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http://www.diacenter.org/diacenter/ltproj/city/double%5Fneg%5Farial.html
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Cultural, Land Art
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