Overall I thought Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" film portrayed an interesting subject manner and was thought provoking. Some things that raised slight confusion for me though, was his constant cutting between an image of a spiral jetty and then something completely off kilter; such as a lizard or dinosaur. At the time this seemed vary bizarre and distracted me from the other elements of the film. But after thinking about it i came to the conclusion that perhaps Smithson was using these objects to draw a connection between his works of art and other elements of nature. Kind of an "everything is connected" statement. I also thought it was somewhat off-putting that way he continually displayed a peaceful image of the spiral jetty in the calm lake, and then contrasted it with loud heave dump trucks depositing boulders...the polar opposite of what would to me, be considered peaceful. Notably, i thought it was interesting to get a little insight as to how these massive jetty's were constructed.
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