Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert SmithsonOne's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.
Robert SmithsonInstead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Robert Smithson