UNM Dreams Letterbox hybrid
Like all letterboxes, the stamps are not for trade. They remain in the letterbox so finders can make stamp images from the site in their personal logbooks--sort of like passports. Those who bring their own personal stamps will stamp their image in the site's logbook. To find out more about pure letterboxes, go to letterboxing. org.
Go to the tallest part of the sculpture. (One of the major protests against this artwork was that students or children would climb on the structure and hurt themselves. As far as we know, no one has been hurt yet.)
Find the longest curved beam that swoops down from the half-eaten doughnut up top. At its end, behind a stick, is the what is sought.
Make sure no one is watching. Please rehide the pouch in the exact spot you found it, and put the stick back in place. You probably need to squash the air out of the plastic bags before you zip them so that the pouch can be folded and wedged back into place.
This was a pure letterbox sharing the location with TwoScots' geocache UNM Whatzit for several years. Many geocachers found the letterbox and signed in while searching for the geocache. Since TwoScots' archived the geocache, I have changed the letterbox to a hybrid.
Watch your children. This site has lots of traffic all round it. Bring your own ink. Please do not take the rubber stamps or logbook. This is a letterbox, so you do not exchange trinkets. Do bring your own ink-pad so you can stamp the image into your logbook.
"Dreams and Nightmares: Journey of a Broken Weave" by Dennis Oppenheim, 1987. The artist said "the piece demonstrates the transition from weaving and pottery designs to high technology microchips."
More facts about the structure:
● Once a professor at UNM, the artist Dennis Oppenheim actually donated his work.
The cost of $37,500 really only paid for materials and construction costs.
● Some university regents argued that this art piece didn't fit with the Southwest architecture
already on campus.
● Because of the odd shape and size of this piece of land, the artwork went up... maybe
because no one could think of anything else that would fit here.
● This composition and Raven Flight 1 by Krista Elick are some examples of public art
owned by the city of Albuquerque. You may see more at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abqpublicart/