The Bull God in Summer by RickGot
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This is a 60 foot (18.3 meter) steel sculpture in a roadside sculpture garden just outside of Montrose South Dakota. Seeing this thing from the freeway, my son and I just had to stop and snap some pictures. (and pay $6 each to tour the rest of the sculptures, of course)
For scale, the "guardian" stands a good 8 feet tall (2.4 meters or so) The Bull God itself stands as tall as the faces on Mt. Rushmore.
Kudos to the sculptor, Wayne Porter, for this and all the interesting and wonderful works he has displayed at this roadside attraction.
Later that day, we stopped in Mitchell, SD to tour the "World Famous" Corn Palace, a large building completely covered in murals created from corn and corn cobs.
Middle America can be a fascinating place to visit.
Comments (4)
lucindawind
wow thats really cool ..wonderful shot
MrsLubner
I have seen a documentary on the corn house. Fascinating, just like this. I would pay the money to see this collection of outdoor art too. Outstanding!
durleybeachbum
Marvellous. The entry fee is a bargain.
Chipka
Only $6? WOW! I'd pay twice that to get up close and personal to this guy! Hmmm...that didn't exactly sound right, but oh well. This is a great photo, nicely surreal and strangely otherworldly...this is NOT something I'd expect in the good ol' U-S-of-A, and yet there it is. I'd expect this to be dug up in some stretch of the Iraqi or Iranian desert with little icons of the demon Pahzuzu scattered around. At any rate though, I really like this image a lot. I'd love to see more of the sculpture work around the grounds.