The Lightining Field

USA / New Mexico / Pinehill /

Lightning Field - Walter de Maria
N34°30.773 W108°06.447 (12 765546E 3822823N) alt: 2196m

In the remote high desert of western New Mexico, northeast of the small town of Quemado, are four hundred pointed, vertical steel poles arrayed in a 25 by 16 grid, one mile long by one kilometer wide. The sculpture was designed to be viewed over an extended period of time, across changing weather and light. One of the best known and most uniformly praised Land Art examples.

Google now has high resolution images of this area. Not only can the cabin be seen, but the walking path tracing the perimeter of the artwork is also clearly visible!
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Topographic Map

Official Site: www.diaart.org/sites/main/lightningfield

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Coordinates: 34°31'1"N 108°6'22"W

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