> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://nomadearthcatalog.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Jim Denevan - URL: https://nomadearthcatalog.com/jim-denevan/ - Published: 2025-10-02T17:05:30.000Z - Updated: 2025-10-02T17:05:30.000Z - Description: Jim Denevan - Author: Nomad Earth Catalog - Tags: #compendium, Art Jim Denevan is an American artist known for vast, ephemeral drawings inscribed directly into sand, soil, or ice. Working with only a rake, stick, or his own footsteps, he creates geometric spirals, radiating circles, and intricate patterns that can stretch for miles. The works are temporary by design: tides erase them, winds scatter them, and seasons reclaim them. Denevan’s practice treats land and body as co-authors. Each work is both monumental and fleeting, a choreography of walking and tracing that transforms ordinary landscapes into cosmic diagrams. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/screenshot-2024-07-17-at-8.46.22-pm.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/75142-cover.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/lake-baikal-art--8--2-.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/lake-baikal-art--1--2-.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/screenshot-2024-07-17-at-8.40.24-pm.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/jim-denevan-fdf371f7-0689-42b4-8e2a-ee1cdac81bb-resize-750.jpeg) 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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/jimdenevan-jim-denevan-black-rock-desert-nevada-2008.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3b/93/3b93ff44-7102-4a5b-8c50-2039edfce556/content/images/2025/09/screenshot-2024-08-13-at-9.22.35-am.webp) Images from Jim [Denevan](https://jimdenevan.com/), [Amusing Planet](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/09/jim-denevans-giant-artwork-on-frozen.html), [Alchetron](https://alchetron.com/Jim-Denevan#jim-denevan-c2abab9a-1d1b-4247-8521-77403c69be1-resize-750.jpeg), and [Frame Magazine](https://frameweb.com/article/lake-baikal-land-art-by-jim-denevan).