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The Greenbelt Meridian's initiative is to return a complete circle of land back to nature, free of all human interference, therefore we think it is necessary to mention American Land Art during the 70s, because the ideas of Earthwork, conceptual art, and installation art have been an underlying influences (at least in spirit) for our direction in working large scale, inside and outside the gallery! Earth Art is an art movement and an art form that is created in nature. Large scale structures and sculptures are not placed in landscape, rather land is in various ways the subject and means of creation. In 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles presented "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974", the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with land art. Many of the earth works have eroded with time and only exists in photos, video, or paper documents. http://moca.org/landart/

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The notion of maximum effort and minimum impact is totally against human progress and value, and that is our conscience toward nature. We appreciate Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Alys' social practice on earth and share with you one of his early projects here.

Francis Alys, The Loop Tijuana-San Diego 1997

In order to go from Tijuana to San Diego without crossing the Mexico/United States border. I followed a perpendicular route away from the fence and circumnavigated the globe, heading 67* south East, North East and South East again until I reached my departure point. The project remained free and clear of all critical implications beyond the physical displacement of the artist.  --Alys