In Feature, MOT International will exhibit photo-documentation and video works from Dennis Oppenheim’s seminal piece Whirlpool. (Eye of the Storm), in which Oppenheim used the smoke discharged by flying aircraft to trace the shape of a tornado in the sky.
Recalling both Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Oppenheim’s own Annual Rings, (1968) the spiral image is iconic of this period of experimentation outside the gallery. Yet while many of the Land Art works produced in this period could only be seen in their totality via aerial images, in Whirlpool. (Eye of the Storm) Oppenheim moved beyond marking the landscape, projecting the work itself up into the air and opening up the limitless surface of the sky for intervention.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21499