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Located in Bighorn Park
From the artist's blog dated 2015: "This simple project was one of my first publicly commissioned works that consisted of a granite boulder taken from a troublesome area of Gore Creek, in Vail, Colorado. I placed it in a park and etched the hands of local children into its surface after polishing it as well. Nearly 10 years later this has even more depth for me as my children now get to visit this park with me."
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A series of granite benches and monolith sculptures arranged as plaza in Ford Park.
The three free-standing sculptures are titled “Strata,” “The Fang” and “Gore Creek.” “Strata” is the tallest sculptural element, standing at nine feet tall, and represents the valley’s geological rock formations in its roughly hewn, horizontally patterned texture. “The Fang,” an East Vail winter ice climbing attraction and a popular summer...
