The parade of this titanic granite boulder, as it plods, rolls, and slides to its home will fill people with awe, pride, and solemnity even as roads and bridges for lowly automobiles will be tested to their limits, and escape routes from closed off neighborhoods will rattle those who are going to important places.

Space, deep space. Astronomers and physicists still don’t what it really is (think dark matter and dark energy). This work of art could (will) inspire thousands to at least get a philosophical taste of the enigmatic medium through which Earth and our Solar System are traveling at an incomprehensible rate.

I find that massive, linear and unabashedly artificial slot is shockingly alien in comparison to the fractal geometries of the land into which the slot is cut. It is jarring and unnerving, and in some strange way, utterly beautiful. Which I think might be the point.

After reading all of the comments above, however, I’m already resigned to the conclusion that since I actually like this sculpture — I think it’s fantastic — I must be a moron. Oh well.

Today, in Los Angeles, it is even harder to appreciate because the money to build Heizer’s artwork come from private funds. That’s just crazy, not the boulder but all these reactions…

Sometimes the well developed ego of the artist morphs into psychopathy. It’s depressing that the softer, more sensitive souls are more often underappreciated artists or unkown until after they’re dead…since they just can’t do anything for the sake of publicity like these dickheads.