Robert Smithson, Closed Mirror Square (Cayuga Salt Mine Project), 1969. Rock salt, mirror, glass: a mound of salt with a square of mirrors closed inside it.
Smithson’s two floor works captured me with how it’s impossible to get close but I kept wanting to.
Grows from
My own looking, not Namjoon’s pointing. Seen at Dia Beacon, the place he pointed. With Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis) on the same floor.
First seen
- Dia Beacon · July 2026