LOS ANGELES (AP) – The days of the discovery and rapid disappearance of two shiny metal monoliths other than half the world have come to a climax in Southern California.
Its straight sides and height are similar to those found in the Utah Desert and the other is found in Romania. Like those structures, the origins of the California building are also mysterious.
It’s on top of a hill in Etasadero, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, KEYT-TV Reported Wednesday. This tall, silver structure drew hikers to the area after photos were posted on social media.
Another monolith seen in Utah’s other global red-rock country two weeks ago became a worldwide attraction as the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” debuted and led hundreds of people to remote locations.
The two extreme athletes said they were part of a group that was breaking down the hollow metal structure because they were concerned about the damage to visitors’ drawers to the relatively untouchable venue. Officials said visitors flattened the plants with their cars and left behind human waste.
A constitution that appeared in Romania last week has also been scrapped.
Utah Creation created the famous land-art pieces that gave the dot to the west. Robert Smithson’s spiral jetty is an earthen work along the Great Salt Lake and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnel is a huge piece of concrete in the desert.
Like those pieces, because of its context in the landscape, the monolith was attractive for the part, said Whitney Tessie, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Utah Museum of Fine Art.
“It’s usually a big, big piece of land art, no experience, this idea of travel.”
The intense social media reaction to the monotony against the background of the punitive epidemic, the part disappearing quickly, has become part of his story. Police said the demolition could not be illegal because no one has claimed the structure as their property.
The still-anonymous creator of the Utah monument has not followed the steps taken by land artists of the 1970s to get permission to perform their works. Visits to those remote sites are now managed and monitored to avoid undue stress on the environment. Federal and state officials in Utah also expressed concern about the encroachment of the area around the monolith.
“It’s good to think about our relationship with the earth, which is what these types of projects are all about,” Tessie said. “The impact of man on the front and center of the environment.”
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Lindsay Whitehurst, an Associated Press writer in Salt Lake City, contributed to this report.
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