Michael Heizer: Megalith #5 1998. I see a body entrapped, confined to this minimalist space. Size creates a boldness and a presence beyond what itis contained within.

Michale Heizer, as discussed at Dia Beacon, the architectural scale of megalithic monuments of ancient cultures-a comparison that is explicitly addressed in his Negative Megalithe #5 (1998), a natural menhir-like stone inscribed in a rectangular niche. “I think if people feel commitment they feel something has been transcended” Heizer. To me parallels are drawn to between the human body and the malability fo this entrapped stone.