AN ARTIST CREATES NEW MYTHOLOGIES FOR A CONTEMPORARY ERA IN SOUTHERN COLORADO.
The Last Peak
A San Luis Valley crop circle finds new life in Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons. PHOTO BY PAVLIHA/ISTOCK
THIS SUMMER, the San Luis Valley will serve as the backdrop for a newly commissioned—and truly enormous—earthwork. Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons (orisons.art) will be set on a 160-acre plot of land sandwiched between the San Juans and the Sangre de Cristos. Born in France and based in London, the artist is known for breathing life into lost things. Produced by Black Cube, a Coloradobased nonprofit nomadic art museum, Orisons represents an environmentally conscious approach to land art. Humeau worked closely with Jones Farms Organics, a fourth-generation family farm to create something new from a fallow crop circle. The piece is meant to speak to the fragility of an ecosystem facing megadrought. Opening on July 29, the work features the land itself and a series of kinetic and interactive sculptures, from pieces inspired by native vegetation that whistle in the wind to large wing-like structures that hover above the earth, evoking the region’s beloved Sandhill Cranes.
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