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Art in Public Places #2

1 messages in this thread | Started on 2002-01-27

Art in Public Places #2

From: k. sinkhorn (floatflute@yahoo.com) | Date: 2002-01-27 13:06:41 UTC-08:00
Field Of Corn
Placed 1/27/02
Franklin County, Ohio
Difficulty: 1
This a Micro box (film canister) please take your own
stamp pad

The 2ndt box placed in the series: Art in Public
places. To find the area where to look for these
letterboxes all you have to do is go to
sculpturecenter.org/oosi/oo.asp. Once here you go to
searching oosi, you can either enter the artist name
or the name of the letterbox title under advance
query. This will take you to the site about this
sculpture and where it is located. Once you find out
where to head then read the clues to find the
letterbox.

Malcolm Cochrans sculpture consists of 109 concrete
ears of corn, each approximately six foot high, into
the ground in even rows. Cochran finished the piece by
creating a row of text panels that explain the history
of corn production and set them among Osage orange
trees.

Parking is on the side of the road that leads to a
company building. Once you have found the sculpture go
to the panel that discusses the Osage orange trees,
from here look at the tree at 295 degrees. The trees
landmark number is 4334, in the fork of the tree
trunks sits the letterbox.



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