We were intrigued to find Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild (2014), in Lincoln, MT. Said to celebrate the rich cultural, environmental, and industrial heritage of the Blackfoot Valley, by creating site-specific sculptures using natural and industrial materials associated with the economic and cultural traditions of the community.
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| Montana Memory: Re-imagining the Delaney Sawmill Teepee Burner (2014-2015, by Kevin O' Dwyer of Ireland); the burner was left when the sawmill closed in 1971, and was moved here in 2014 where photovoltaic cells and LED lighting were added to recreate the glow at night of burning wood refuse (KSS) |
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| Inside the Teepee Burner are photos telling the story of the logging industry in the Blackfoot valley (KSS) |
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| Tree Circus (2017, by Patrick Dougherty, USA) (KSS) |
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| Hill and Valley (2014, by Stephen Siegel, USA) used 28 lodge poles and 30,000 pounds of newspaper |
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| Hill and Valley close-up shows the newspapers (KSS) |
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| East and West Passage (2015, by Mark Jacobs and Sam Clayton, UK) is horizontal to counterbalance the vertical trees and is meant to be experienced by the viewer |
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| The park is also a disc golf course! |
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| The Bridge (2018, by Cornelia Konrads of Germany) is supposed to look as if it could be breaking apart or growing together; however, the boards once suspended on thin wires have all fallen to the ground (KSS) |
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| House of Sky (2014, by Alan Counihan of Ireland) represents the unattainable dream house of 19C settlers who were promised bounteous and fertile land; yet it does seem to be a house of reflected sky |
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| Bat Beacons (2016, by Tyler Nansen, USA) is meant to encourage preservation of bat habitats, with 16 bat roosting boxes (KSS) |
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| A Place is a Place is a Place (2019, by Stuart Ian Frost of Norway) is considered a deconstruction in the form of a local Montana homestead, and created using a found antique cross-cut saw (KSS) |
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| Clearing (2019, by Alison Stigora, USA) is a contemplative structure made with charred wood from Montana wildfires (KSS) |
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| Ponderosa Whirlpool (2016, by Chris Drury, UK) is again a counterbalance to the vertical Ponderosa pines (KSS) |
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| A newspaper bench (KSS) |
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| Gateway of Change (2014, by Jorn Ronnau of Denmark) uses two existing tree trunks |
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| Gateway (2017, by Jaakko Pernu of Finland) graces the entrance to Blackfoot Pathways |
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| Ulm, MT: First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park; Imagine you are a buffalo/bison being stampeded toward this cliff - what cliff? (KSS) |
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| Oh! That cliff! (KSS) |
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| Too late! (KSS) |
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| Kent standing near the edge of the cliff |
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| Looking along the edge of the cliff, where the initial drop is not all that much, but effective |
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| Above the cliff, it is a flat plain for miles; before they had horses, the First Peoples created drive lanes with stone cairns then used a couple runners dressed in wolf skins to cause a stampede of the bison towards the cliff while folks hidden behind the cairns waved white cloths to further frighten the animals, making sure they blindly (bison are short-sighted) ran off the cliff |
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| At last, a Cynomys ludovicianus/Black-tailed Prairie Dog |
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| From below, the cliff face is about one mile long, making it the largest buffalo jump in North America, and probably the world, because where else are there bison? |
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| Square Butte (Fort Mountain to Meriwether Lewis) can be seen from the First Peoples Buffalo Jump |
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| Montana: Big Sky Country |
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| Little Belt Mountains |
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| Montana snow fences look extremely sturdy |
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