Thinking about Claudia Angelmaier and Spiral Jetty

I saw this photograph in Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny and was amazed at how bizarre it looked. I thought I would dig up another photo as a comparison (which ultimately led to scanning every image I saw in publications featuring this work over the next few months). Green rocks and blue water = really??? Is this even the Great Salt Lake?
























Check out Claudia's work too.