At The Lightning Field

"The sublime, as novelist Mary Shelley would describe it, marks a strange midpoint of sensations that occur when mixing both fear and beauty – that state of wooziness spurned by witnessing things like waterfalls, canyons or great works of art. Moved by The Lightning Field, an enormous work of “Land Art” by sculptor Walter De Maria, Laura Raicovich’s essay swallows its subject and gains its strength. It is a testament to At the Lightning Field’s power that the artwork somehow feels exponentially more beautiful experienced through Raicovich; the overall effect is that of a warm, glowing tingle – a paean to the things that, regardless of their gravity or size, awe us."