Betty Beaumont, Cable Piece
 
 


Betty Beaumont, Cable Piece, 1977, Macomb, Illinois

This 100-foot-diameter iron cable ring was left on a farm to bury slowly into the ground. In the years since, infra-red aerial photography has shown that this ring made from 4000 feet of iron cable, looped twelve times, hastens grass growth much like iron spurs human growth. Inspired by the Midwest’s Native American burial mounds and nearby Fermi Laboratories, a neutron-accelerator testing facility, this work poetically merged technology and ritual to achieve an ecological advantage.

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