On July 14, 1976 Nancy Holt charted the evolving light and shadow falling to the interior space of one of the cylinders forming her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973-76). Every half hour, between 6:30 a.m.
Nancy Holt
Shadowy Bush, 2013
30 1/2 × 13 1/2in. (77.5 × 34.3 cm)
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Nancy Holt
Shadowy Bush, 2013
30 1/2 × 13 1/2in. (77.5 × 34.3 cm)
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Shadowy Bush was produced by Nancy Holt as a composite digital print, in an edition of twenty, for the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine who published an interview with Holt by Joan Marter the year this photographic work was made. The image was taken at Holt’s home in Galisteo, New Mexico where she lived from 1985 until her passing in 2014. In her Oral History recording, artist Harmony Hammond recalls that Holt carefully planned the location of the trees and bushes around her home, paying careful attention to what could be seen through the windows. Reflecting her sustained attention to shadow and light, Shadowy Bush reveals Holt's interest in the particularities of light in the ever-changing New Mexico landscape.