Bayyinah C. Pierre

Prof. Sacha Frey

Intro Lit/Crit Arch I

September 17^th 2012

Robert Smithson's close reading, Group in-class assignment 

• The future is emphasized quite a bit i his essay
• He mixes time and ideas together. 
• He's big on the use of long lasting materials, materials that were used in the past.
• Some artists see an infinite number of movies. Why? Time is compressed or stopped inside the movie size? Maybe, it is because movies are not real, Never really happens in real life unless it is a documentary. And, this is a facet, artists partially like the real world. Their creativity allows them to see the real world. 
• Movies are entropic? With time, a movie's style and quality image improves. 
• The contamination is overly used.
• Smithson is not really interested in the beauty of earth, more so, he's interested in the change it has gone through. For example, fertile land becoming  a desert.