The gawking fascination with the Utah obelisk taps into larger, fundamental behavioral problems that are holdovers from colonizing the frontier.
Cara Despain
Cara Despain is an artist who through writing, research, and field work addresses issues of land use and ownership, climate change, the challenge of visualizing the Anthropocene, and frontierism. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and currently lives in Miami, Florida and works between the two.