Marguerite Humeau joined forces with Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum to look at the past, present and future of the San Luis Valley with Orisons, 84 sculptures across 160 acres.
is the largest earthwork to date by a female artist in the world."
“It’s a fallow plot of farmland,” she continues. “Located in the San Luis Valley, it’s a unique agricultural location in the Rocky Mountains, roughly the size of Israel, and the highest alpine valley in the world. It’s also the highest desert in the U.S., with unique geological qualities formed by the largest volcanic eruption in history.”
There are two categories of sculptures. Seven are large-scale, abstract sandhill cranes in flight with interactive net wings that people can climb into to rest and merge with the landscape. Each massive bird, approximately thirty feet in length, is unique. The sandhill cranes, who nest near Monte Vista, have been migrating through the area since prehistory, Stell notes. “But now the wetlands are changing.” One day the majestic migrants could be a thing of the past in Colorado.
Humeau’s focus is on the pitfalls of industrial agriculture, showing how mono-cropping rids soil of nutrients, while new agricultural groups in the San Luis Valley such as Jones Farm Organics are teaching farmers to diversify and plant soil-building cover crops. “When you look at, the land is completely depleted,” Stell notes. “Nothing except sage and weeds can grow, and then chemicals are sprayed to get rid of them. Now they are having brownouts in the valley.
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