Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.
Robert SmithsonHistory is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
Robert SmithsonBanal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Robert SmithsonCultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Robert Smithson