Giddy-up Rusty! Traditional Cache
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This difficult to find nano cache is on a piece of public art in a high muggle area in downtown Calgary. Please replace it carefully in the same place as you find it. I have replaced it with a black nano if anyone finds one that has any rust paint on it please message me and let me know. It would not surprise me if it turns up somewher
It is difficult to find much of the history of this unique metal Horse. Frits Pannekoek in “Cowtown It Ain’t”: The Stampede and Calgary’s Public Monuments states:
“Dixie Jewett’s controversial “Metal Horse” at the Saltlik Restaurant (101 Eighth Avenue SW) is arguably Stampede-related. It is ironic, however, that this presentation of a Clydesdale, a good farm horse, is built from old tractor parts in a genre appropriately known as
“steampunk.” the juxtaposition of the horse with the bones of its technological replacement – both more farm than ranch – is a puzzle that post-modernists will take great delight in analyzing.”
The artist, Dixie Jewett is featured on several art gallery websites, including www.lanninggallery.com:
While growing up on a farm in Montana Jewett knew horses well and always felt a strong interest in art; but after high school a different love took center stage. “I always wanted to be an artist,” she says, “but I was sidetracked by flying.” She spent fourteen years flying seaplanes as air-taxis around Alaska and still keeps a plane at her local airport; in whatever spare time she has, she’s rebuilding another.
During all her time flying Jewett never got art out of her system and for the past ten years has pursued it full time as a career. A welding class led her down the path that would capture her imagination and steel became her medium. Jewett learned the processes of gas- and wire-feed welding and began fashioning horses, ultimately turning to found objects to represent her true artistic statement.
Jewett has now become a renowned fabrication artist working broken tools, rusted car parts, farm equipment and myriad odds and ends together to create her indisputably life-like horse sculptures.
One has only to admire the precision with which she captures the nuance of a delicate fetlock or pastern, and the strength captured in every flank and withers, to know this is an artist of truly significant skill.
Typically, Jewett draws her ideas on the floor first then begins the three-dimensional work, taking several months to complete each sculpture. Every one is unique, both in materials and in concept; painstaking work with forge, torch and welding rod bring a unique character to each horse.
Jewett says, “Sometimes I’ll stop work and go out to the stable and pasture to look at the muscles and proportions.” It is this precision of effort that defines Dixie Jewett’s incomparable work.
Enjoy examining Jewett's work as you search for this geocache.
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