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I feel like I’ve been driving past the “Bleu Horses” sculptures, amid the hills off Hwy 287 near Three Forks, at least since I first set foot in Montana, in 2002. That can’t be true, of course — the horses weren’t installed until 2013, and I’d moved to Montana and then away and then back by then. But the impression fits a work of art so well-tailored and integrated into its environment that it seems utterly, inevitably, at home.
Even so, I didn’t know the artwork’s name. Or the artist’s. I didn’t know when (or how) the steel horses were anchored to the ground, or on whose authority. I didn’t even know they were partly painted blue. I’d never noticed any color in the silhouettes. I could never afford to take my eyes off the road quite long enough to study them that closely. I didn’t know there was a path where I could stop and walk among them.
Anna Paige’s story this week about the sculpture herd, “One project for the people of Montana,” answers those and many other questions I didn’t know I had. It’s not necessarily a typical Montana Free Press story: about a policy, or a lawsuit, or an ideological line in the political sand. But it did connect me to a shared experience rooted in curiosity about this frequently...
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