Michael Heizer is
widely recognized as a Land art artist known for his large-scale sculptures and
for art created in the deserts of California and Nevada. Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing / 90° Vertical Planar
Rotary, reminiscent of prehistoric gravel drawings, consists of four
circles made on the bed of Jean Dry Lake in Nevada.

The circumference of the largest circle, which
measures 400 feet in diameter, was laid out with a ring of used tires dropped
by Heizer, who, like a human compass, walked the peri-meter holding a taut
string fixed to the center. Four half-sized circles were added, one inside the
large circle and touching its perimeter, a second intersecting the large circle,
a third tangential to it, and a fourth separated by a short distance. After
these were similarly marked, two motorcycles raced around the circular
formations etching the drawing with their tires.