Plus, she was key in helping artists execute the most outrageous works — including important land art pieces such as Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty". Talk about thinking big.
Kendrick said the area's beach erosion problems stem from the Navy's original construction of jetties about 50 years ago.
State officials and some art historians, pointing to Mr. Smithson's own writing about the "Spiral Jetty," and the film he made about its construction, said he reveled in the juxtaposition of industrialism and beauty, decay and rebirth, rot and permanence.
The members of the Jetty Jumpers, a varied group of about 40 that includes construction workers and lawyers, have assembled in pursuit of something altogether different.
Not mentioned in the July 11 Summer Shorelines series article "Chasing Waves in Pursuit of Freedom," about the Jetty Jumpers of the New York waterways, is the peril that these speed demons on Jet Skis present to people in kayaks.
Smithson, polymathic creator of the Spiral Jetty and numerous meditations about art, geometry, entropy, culture and nature, had a local building contractor tip 20 truckloads of earth over the shed, until its central beam cracked.
Preservation concerns about "Spiral Jetty" have arisen lately not only because of the work's re-emergence from the water but also because of plans announced in the last two and a half years by companies to initiate industrial projects near the site.
The 35-year-old Townsville man was one of three on board a boat at Groper Creek when it crashed into a submerged jetty close to Hinkson Esplanade about 5.35pm on Friday.
You can sit on the porch reading about Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty".
