Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt

Trailer Partially Covered with Asphalt was originally conceived as an alternative to Juggernaut-Boston Project (1970), a piece designed by Robert Smithson that was never realized three-dimensionally. As noted by Robert Hobbs, this composition, like Juggernaut, illustrates Smithson’s use of entropic figures in his designs. The trailer represents, in the words of Smithson, “monumental inaction” and the idea that systems of order will always fall into disorder.