Amarillo Ramp

Amarillo Ramp was an unfinished Earthwork by artist Robert Smithson, who was a key figure in the Land Art movement. Land Art, also known as Earthworks, involves creating large-scale sculptures directly in nature, often using earth, rocks, and other natural materials. Smithson preferred to work with sites that had been altered or ruined by industrial activity. He died in a plane crash in 1973 while scouting a location for "Amarillo Ramp" near Amarillo, Texas. The work was later completed posthumously by Nancy Holt, Tony Shafrazi, and Richard Serra. Smithson's most famous completed work is Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake in Utah.12