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This installation was built by
Gianni Pettena and his students from University of Utah in 1972. It dramatizes the catching of tumbleweeds rolling around in a progressive territorialization of what Pettena calls
an unusual skyscraper.
Here is a page about the FRAC's book about Pettena's work published by HYX
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