Cadillacs in the Mist

by Joan Carroll

Title

Cadillacs in the Mist

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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Alot of the images you see of Cadillac Ranch on the internet are sanitized, not a spray paint can in sight. And normally not very muddy in the dusty dry Texas Panhandle. And deserted. But the reality is far more seedy! The 2015 rains made it exceedingly muddy and spray cans litter the property. During the daytime, there is a constant flow of visitors to the iconic Route 66 monument. However, on a foggy morning, it was deserted and all the mud and paint cans seemed perfectly fitting! Roadside America explains it best: "Standing along Route 66 west of Amarillo, Texas, Cadillac Ranch was invented and built by a group of art-hippies imported from San Francisco. They called themselves The Ant Farm, and their silent partner was Amarillo billionaire Stanley Marsh 3. He wanted a piece of public art that would baffle the locals, and the hippies came up with a tribute to the evolution of the Cadillac tail fin. Ten Caddies were driven into one of Stanley Marsh 3's fields, then half-buried, nose-down, in the dirt (supposedly at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza). They faced west in a line, from the 1949 Club Sedan to the 1963 Sedan de Ville, their tail fins held high for all to see on the empty Texas panhandle. That was in 1974. People would stop along the highway, walk out to view the cars -- then deface them or rip off pieces as souvenirs. Stanley Marsh 3 and The Ant Farm were tolerant of this public deconstruction of their art -- although it doomed the tail fins -- and eventually came to encourage it. Decades have passed. The Cadillacs have now been in the ground as art longer than they were on the road as cars. They are stripped to their battered frames, splattered in day-glo paint splooge, barely recognizable as automobiles." But still the people visit!

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June 22nd, 2015

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