AMARILLO RAMP

Directed by Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown

2017 / 24min

Perhaps best known for his Spiral Jetty, sculptor Robert Smithson’s interest in landscape and land use was prophetic. In 1973, Texas oil millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 commissioned Smithson to create an earthwork on Marsh’s cattle ranch north of Amarillo, called ‘Amarillo Ramp’.