This is part of a series of 17 geocaches placed near outdoor art installations. The geocaches will only be available until mid-October. For other geocaches in the series, see the bookmark list UCA 2018.You may also find helpful the following guide to the UCA geocaches: (link to google drive document).
If you notice any damage to the art installation, please mention it in your log. The cache owner will communicate with the artist.
This is a Letterbox Hybrid Geocache
The cache is not at the posted coordinates.
The parking coordinates will put you at the Curling Club.
To find the letterbox:
- Start at the posted coordinates;
- Take a bearing of 132 degrees (SE). If you are using a geocaching app, then the compass on your phone may be more useful for this first stage;
- Go 410 meters along the trail. You will walk by the art installation;
- Take a bearing of 40 degrees (NE) and leave the path.
As a letterbox, you will find the stamp inside for your stamp book and a logbook to sign as well. When you find the cache, please ensure you replace it just as found. Happy Caching!
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Note that GC7Q2BK (UCA2018.13: "Site") is nearby. You may want to leave your vehicle where it is parked and walk the short distance to discover the next Uncommon Common Art installation and geocache.
Stop 12: Getting Back to Nature by Alex Mann
Artist's description of the installation: Botanical illustration is a medium in which plant life is deconstructed in order to be analyzed. In this piece I have taken several of these illustrations and re-constructed them into one work, so that each plant is interacting with each other - although in a much sloppier way than these plants interact in real life.
Putting this embroidery in the environment, which it depicts, creates a direct contrast between how we deconstruct nature for our uses, both literally (using wood and cotton to construct the work) and visually vs. its natural existence. The choice to stand in front of the embroidery to look at it will obscure your line of sight to the real nature that the embroidery is meant to represent. You’ll be able to immediately compare the difference in experiencing an artist’s representation of nature and being in nature itself.