Bill Dilworth, the beloved caretaker of Walter de Maria New York Earth Roomdied at the age of 70. New York Times Saturday reported that he died of a stroke on December 10, 2024, although his death was not a matter of public knowledge era Itu notice has been published.
For 35 years, Dilworth leaned towards the 1977 De Maria work, the installation consisted of 280,000 pounds of dirt and two feet tall. (Visitors stand behind glass and are not allowed to walk on the dirt.) Under the management of Dia Art Foundation, the work has been open to the public since 1980 and has since become a pilgrimage site and a cult favorite. Pop singer Lorde even Earth Room Looks like it in recent music videos.
The dirt in that room looked natural, thanks in large part to the labor behind Dilworth. He began to learn about the work closely and spent many hours maintaining it.
In 2023 New Yorker For example, Dilworth’s careful thinking on how dirt moves around describes the article. He started with a tiller, a piece of agricultural equipment with a sharp disk, and then switched to the rake at the suggestion of DIA founder Heiner Friedrich.
He also remembers the wetness of the earth and waters it regularly. He told me that he told me that he had maintained for decades, and that was the state I had to do with because it was my wet state. ” New Yorkerspent two days watering the dirt.
Dilworth Damaged kilometers (1979). Dilworth became an abstract painter and will continue to paint for many years.
But he is known primarily for caring for sites like this New York Earth Room. Before completing this work, he also maintained the Church of St. Teresa, which dates back to the 19th century and is located in New York’s Lower East Side. his Earth Room Work is accidental. “I’m with my friend, who is DIA’s construction operator and he has to look at these pipes,” Dilworth told artsy. “On my shoulder, I saw that guy on the table, and I asked my friend Jim, ‘Did this job ever open?’ He said no.
People may expect to be New York Earth Room After years of internal work. However, Dilworth said in the interview that he was reluctant to explain this because De Maria himself refused to do so.
“It’s about the earth, the art and the quiet,” Dilworth told New Yorkeradding: “People look at it, they think nothing has grown, and I said, ‘Look again, time is growing there.”
