🧌: Rita the Rock Planter by Thomas Dambo
My family and I enjoyed a nice #DayTrip over the weekend where we saw #BeehiveA60sMusical at #TheButteTheatre in #CrippleCreekCO and enjoyed a #RockyStroll to visit #ANewTrollFriend named Rita. 🏔️☀️ #MountainViews and sunny sky’s; we enjoyed a beautiful adventure!!
Thomas Dambo is a Danish “recycle art activist” who is known for his installations of giant monumental wooden sculptures called trolls, made entirely out of recycled materials. The trolls are installed in various locations in 17 countries. We have #TwoTrollsInColorado located in #BreckenridgeCO and in Victor, Colorado.
“A hundred suns is how long a nap takes for the trolls.
When Rita woke again, her mountainside was full of holes.
The humans must have dug them in their search for shiny rock,
But someone could fall in, so Rita went to tidy up.”
Built in 2023 and commissioned by Gold Camp District Impact Group. Thomas Dambo created, Rita the Rock Planter, on a mountain top where they used to dig for gold in Victor, Colorado. After the humans mined for gold, they left many holes in the ground. Rita wanted to make sure no one fell in a hole, so she decided to put the rocks back in.
Founded in 1891, gold was discovered in Victor in the late 19th century. With Cripple Creek, the mining district became the second largest gold mining district in the country.
Battle Mountain, located just above Victor, had the largest, most prolific mines in the mining district and the town became known as the “City of Mines.” Victor officially became a city on July 16, 1894.
In 2010 dollars, that was approximately $10 billion of mined gold. It reached its peak around the turn of the century when there were about 18,000 residents in the town. Depleted ore in mines, labor strife, and the exodus of miners during World War I caused a steep decline in the city’s economy, from which it has never recovered. The population was 379 at the 2020 census.
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