Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets is associated with the land art and conceptual art

 movements of the 1960s and 70s and holds an international reputation. His work is primarily concerned with light, observation,

 perspective, and space. 

“I think it’s quite a good thing to do, but it’s stupid for other people to do it, or to buy it from me. What matters is the feeling. I discovered it’s a great feeling to pick out a point on the map and to search for the place for three days, and then to find there are only two trees standing there, and a dog pissing against the tree. But someone who tried to buy that from you would be really stupid, because the work of art is the feeling, and he couldn’t buy that from me, . . ." 

-Jan Dibbets

"12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective"

Dibbets creates an optical illusion through photographic perception to 'correct' the perspective distortion of the eye in a large-scale drawing of a trapezoid formed by a 

bulldozer in the sand, the form is perceived as a square on the flat plane of the TV screen. Subsequently the incoming tide washes away the shape.