The posted coordinates are at the parking area. In order to claim the find for this geocache, enter the spiral walkway at the south east corner of the rock area and message me with the number of black angle iron pieces which are sunk into the concrete at the base of the sculpture.
PLEASE, NO CLIMBING ON THE ROCKS.
This is a work in progress as native plants and pollinators are added to help restore this land to its natural state after the decimation and destruction that it had to endure for the past several years as the staging area for the gas pipeline project and the road widening project. The boulders used to create the spiral walkway were saved from these infrastructure improvements — hopefully illustrating how beauty and order can eventually come from chaos.
This project was born of collaboration. Mindy MacLaren and Kristina Hutch Matthews were practically strangers when they purchased this land together in 2018, but a shared vision to preserve this intersection’s last undeveloped corner has blossomed into a wonderful friendship between these two women. Their idea to uplift and support the community through art was mobilized when the Covid-19 pandemic began and the world became even more polarized.
Art is viewed differently by every person, but the vision is to use this highly visible corner to create a public art statement that gives people hope, creates an inspirational vision of what is possible, celebrates the land for its own sake, and most of all, helps people believe that we have the potential to emerge from difficult times as peaceful as we are powerful. Those are two words that may not often appear in the same sentence; but there is incredible strength, sovereignty and power in holding a vibration of peacefulness, as “Serenity,” this dove/phoenix, created by sculptor James Seaman, embodies for all to see.
This public art project is located on private property but permission for this geocache was granted by the Penfield Arts Center.
Congrats to the Mack4, LCSM, EarthSciSD and dslater529 for gang tackling the First to Find!
Virtual Rewards 4.0 - 2024-2025
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between January 17, 2024 and January 17, 2025. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 4.0 on the Geocaching Blog.