Metaphor: Tree of Utah
Bonneville Salt Flats
UTAs you drive across the Salt Flats, you'll encounter nothing but 80 miles of nothing. The landscape is pretty stark. To the pioneers, this must have been what they thought hell looked like.
About 25 miles east of Wendover, sculptor Karl Momen in 1986 erected Metaphor, the tree of Utah. It is about the only thing that breaks the horizon for miles around.
Strange as it may seem, there is no stopping allowed. The highway is marked 'For emergency stopping only.' Amazing how many emergencies occur here.
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Metaphor sculpture on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Postcard ca. 1980.
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