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Michael Heizer: “I've had an obsession with land art recently,” says Verschueren, citing Robert Smithson, Richard Long, and the Berkeley-born Michael Heizer, whose Isolated Mass/Circumflex at the Menil Collection in Houston is pictured above. “It’s fascinating how they can influence the environment by making small adjustments. That's something I look to as a designer. How can you make a garment more interesting without a lot of changes?”