Together, they form a mesmerizing mandala pattern that invites the public inside to experience the design’s effects.
These lights cast shadows off each pyramid and give the installation a warm, spectral feeling.
The artistic choice to create ephemeral work that evolves overtime is deeply felt by Denevan.
He says, As I draw and shape these forms, an invitation is made, it emerges.
An entering into takes place.
Scale, presence, human, and otherwise.
External is internal and internal is external.
That which expires and that which is eternal, a simultaneity, within and without.
Self-Similaris one of land artist Jim Denevan’s most ambitious installations to date.
The work features 448 hand-formed pyramids and mounds laid out in 19 concentric circles.
At dusk, the illumination of over a thousand solar lamps changes the look and feel ofSelf-Similar.
Local volunteers helped produce the ephemeral work, which takes on a mandala-like pattern.
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