"Installations, Environments, and Sites" Peter Selz

These artists were all about making art in and about nature. They wanted to create the art within the earth and its environment. It seemed they were about keeping things minimal. Christo used fabric for his designs and they were not permanent. He also recycled all the materials he used for his projects. Walter De Maria created the lightning field to create "a stunning relationship between pure, rational, abstract manmade forms and the overwhelming power of nature's earth, sky, and light."

Most artists at this time were not formally trained in the arts. They created their own works on their own.

Everything at this time just seemed to be reall nature-oriented, as if the artists were trying to get back to their roots.