These are just south of Las Vegas on i15. They are about 30 ft high, judging from the people around them.
Sorry about the quality. they were quite ways away.
Look like colored rock cairns built by someone with a crane.
Shellback
Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
Probably called "art" -
IMO, they distract from the natural beauty of the area...
itsmeagain wrote:
These are just south of Las Vegas on i15. They are about 30 ft high, judging from the people around them.
Sorry about the quality. they were quite ways away.
I said I-15 to myself before I read the caption. A friend of mine who used to live in CA near me move to Henderson, NV a few years ago. He often drives between NV and CA to see family, friends, and go to events. He tells me about and photographs all sorts of weird things along the I-15. In fact he may have even shot those rock piles before. He nor I have any idea of their meaning or purpose, likely just another odd ball piece of road folk art.
Let's see... That's about equidistant from Roswell NM and Area 51 NV. So maybe it's a "message" from aliens.
But more likely it's a government-funded "art" project... Your tax dollars at work!
Thank you for the link. Interesting.
Fits my definition of much of modern art: creativity without talent.
itsmeagain wrote:
These are just south of Las Vegas on i15. They are about 30 ft high, judging from the people around them.
Sorry about the quality. they were quite ways away.
This may be a depiction of the fairy tale seven dwarves on their way to or from the mines.
I find it rather curious that the government has regulations and standards for signs placed along or near our Interstates, but a visual monstrosity such as this is seemingly tolerated. I guess I'm not culturally endowed enough to view this as an art form!
FL Streetrodder wrote:
I find it rather curious that the government has regulations and standards for signs placed along or near our Interstates, but a visual monstrosity such as this is seemingly tolerated. I guess I'm not culturally endowed enough to view this as an art form!
It is my understanding that the regulations only deal with impediments to safe transport, not view.
Billboards, unfortunately, are considered to be weeds that need to be addressed periodically.
Anything can be put up on private property as long as it does not interfere with the transports.
As for the project, would your appreciation be different if these were wooden totem poles? Just curious.
THANKS FOR ALL THE COMMENTS.
We have one of those stacks in Miami Beach. It is called "Miami Mountain" by artist Ugo Rondinone. Very bright colors down here in the Florida Sun and they seem to be holding their own against fading.
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