Star Axis
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title:
Star Axis
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Star Axis is an earthwork built by American sculptor Charles Ross to observe the stars, which is considered to be a defining example of land art. The roughly eleven-story architectonic sculpture and naked-eye observatory is situated on a mesa in the eastern plains of the New Mexico desert. It incorporates five main elements that include apertures framing several earth-to-star alignments, which allow a visitor to experience them in human scale. Ross conceived the project in 1971, began constructi
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Earthwork sculpture by Charles Ross
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Axis
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2023-08-23T19:51:11Z
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