"Splitting" Splitting and Spiral Jetty

Splitting was a very interesting film in that it shows creativity through destruction. Gordan Matta Clark takes a sculpture into the exact opposite of what the traditional sculpture is known as. Instead of creating he is destroying. The film itself shows at various angles the destruction of the house in ways that sometimes question what we as viewers are looking at. One image in particular is looking at the sun through the cut in the middle of the house. Spiral Jetty plays with the sun in ways of color, glare and movement. The fly-over of Spiral Jetty shows the Salt Lake change colors from red to brown and even a hint of blue. The sun acts as a glare and helps outline Smithson's sculpture and makes it that more amazing and beautiful. There is an instant that is particularly amazing when the sun is framed by the Spiral Jetty when the reflection of the sun is located right in the middle of the spiral.