Sentences with phrase «brass rod into»
Walter De Maria, who in 1977 sank a one - kilometre brass rod into the earth in North Germany, calling the result Vertical Earth Kilometer.
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For one of his most celebrated early works, The Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), de Maria inserted a 1km - long solid brass rod vertically into the ground in Friedrichsplatz Park in Kassel, Germany, so that its end, which is 5 cm in diameter, is flush with the surface of the Earth and the 2m by 2m red sandstone slab which marks its position.