Ephemeral, large-scale art by artist Jim Denevan
Take the huge dry lake bed. Choose a stick. Make the largest sand drawing on Earth
Next on the list could be - aliens see it, make contact. Well, even without aliens, this art is more than mind-boggling in its scale. It’s planet-altering Jim Denevan made the world’s largest freehand drawing a few weeks ago on a dry lake in Nevada. How big is it? Three mile across, which took 100 miles of walking to draw the pattern […] Even though esthetically it’s a welcome addition to the landscape, it is also a sort of a transient mark - like a cloud, or a river-bed. Immense in its scope, and lasting only a moment in the large scale of things We asked the artist, how long did this stupendous artwork last? “Completely erased in a rainstorm the next week… It felt strange to work so hard and not see tide come in. But rains did come which is sort of the same thing
from “The Largest Human-Made Art on Earth,” Dark Roasted Blend, 21 June, 2008