At the Lightning Field

Walter De Maria's “Lightning Field” is 400 stainless steel poles, positioned 220 feet apart, in the desert of central New Mexico. Over the course of several visits, it becomes, for Raicovich, a site for confounding and revealing perceptions of time, space, duration, and light; how changeable they are, while staying the same.

From At the Lightning Field : Chaos and coincidences of history :

Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist at MIT in the early 1960s. Looking for a dev…