Nicholas V. Elbakidze has been setting the standard for Earthwork building since the early 1970s with his first large-scale environmental project commission; Spiral Jetty designed by Robert Smithson. In 1967, Mr. Elbakidze approached Mr. Smithson after seeing his early exhibited artworks in galleries throughout New York and wanted to convince him to reject the museum and gallery as the setting of his artistic activity and develop a monumental landscape project which would be beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculpture and the commercial art market. After months of persuading Mr. Smithson was convicted and created the first designs for Spiral Jetty which would be built in Utah just a few years later in 1970. Mr. Elbakidze’s work with Robert Smithson would later inspire him to create Elbakidze New York just 5 years after Spiral Jetty in 1975 with the mission to create Earthworks for artist around the world, and it still severs to do so today.