// Walter De Maria, Earth Room (Dia) //
“Does anything ever grow in there?”
“Mushrooms, sometimes,” Dilworth said. No, not Elvis; with his bushy eyebrows, Dilworth actually looked more like Tom Waits. He pushed the unruly bangs off his forehead and told me he “routinely” ate the mushrooms.
Indeed.
“Do you water it?” I asked. Yes, he rakes and waters the dirt and scrubs the walls clean of mold. The late-afternoon light cast an otherworldly phosphorescence on all that soil, and the silence grew thicker. Dilworth seemed heavy with intriguing secrets. So did De Maria’s earth sculpture.
via ArtsJournal via Washington Post
By William Powers for the Post, May 20, 2009
