This cache is best found in 17 minutes wearing stereo headphones. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was the only song played at the party where Granny and I ... met. I think 1968. Hard to say what year it was, let alone where the magic came from.
No need for a ladder. Like much artwork of Burning Man, this piece is meant to be climbed. Doing so has been made easier after the city placed pigeon-deterrent spikes on the upper level of the piece and cleaned the horizontal surfaces and the steps in spring 2024.
The sculpture by Bryan Tedrick is Portal of Evolution. Portal of Evolution is based on the female reproductive system. Fallopian tubes and ovaries spring from a portal of petal-like steel plates. A kinetic butterfly emerges at the top. Overall dimensions are 26′ tall x 32′ wide.
Here is one of the artist's web pages. Scroll down about a third of the page to see a photo of Portal of Evolution. URL: https://www.bryantedrick.com/copy-of-sculpture
The sculpture was first displayed at Burning Man in 2009.
In 2012, at the time of the installation of the sculpture in front of City Hall, Crimson Rose, Board Member for the Black Rock Arts Foundation and Art Director for Burning Man, said, “We believe the exhibition of Portal of Evolution at this central location in downtown Reno will serve the community by enhancing civic space through this transformation of flat concrete into an interactive community art project.”
The City of Reno permanently installed it in 2015 at Bicentennial Park.