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Las Vegas Piece


Name: Las Vegas Piece
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: NV3190
 
Description: A large, simple etching on the earth, made with four shallow cuts from the six foot blade of bulldozer, two one mile long, two half mile long, forming a square with half mile lines extending. Done in 1969 in the Tula Desert, north of Las Vegas by Walter de Maria. Apparently, no longer visible.
Location: Tula Desert
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Address: NV
Clark County
Visitor Info: The site of the piece is located on the Carp/Elgin Road, which meets Interstate 15 north of Moapa, about 45 minutes form Las Vegas. The site is 37 miles down the road, off another small trail.
Links: http://www.rodencrater.org/spaces/contemp/1.htm
LCS: Cultural, Land Art
   
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