Ole's Persistence of Caching Geocoin

To seek out strange and unusual caching experiences.

Inspired by Salvadore Dali's famous surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory, this geocoin is will travel with me and seek out surreal caching experiences. I first bought one of these geocoins when they were newly available in 2009. I launched it in my multicache "Surrealism" (GC1P8QK), but unfortunately it had a surreal experience all its own. In the third or fourth cache it traveled to: the park was making some "improvements" and dumped a huge pile of boulders on top of the cache location. Who knows if it might resurface again years from now in the hands of some archaelogist? I have always wished I had kept that coin in hand. Hopefully, this new replacement will have some adventures but not go missing.

About The Persistence of Memory: The well-known surrealist painting hangs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Dali (1904-1989) produced the image of soft melting pocket watches in 1931. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness," which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order." This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.