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Thursday, June 25, 1998
Stanley Marsh 3 plans to put more color in
the sky
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Amarillo millionaire who buried 10 Cadillacs
and called it art is now planning to paint the Panhandle sky with
rainbows.
Stanley Marsh 3's "Cadillac Ranch," a pop art automotive
Stonehenge erected in a wheat field west of Amarillo, has been
a tourst attraction since it was created in 1973.
Now the 60-year-old heir to an oil and gas fortune wants to
do something to spruce up the prairie east of the city: constant
rainbows.
"I'm going to do the project right away because I just
thought of it," Marsh told The Texas Journal of The Wall
Street Journal.
Marsh said he got the idea while riding horses on the east
side of town "wondering what we could do there that's as
good as Cadillac Ranch," and thinking, 'we need to get some
color up there in the sky.' "
Marsh said he hopes to erect a series of structures, at least
50 feet high, that he describes as "giant hula hoops on a
stem with water running through them."
Clouds of mist will refract sunlight during the day and strobe
lights at night, creating shimmering clouds of color.
"I think it would be very pretty," said Amarillo
Mayor Kel Seliger.
As to whether the project might require some sort of permit,
Seliger said, "there aren't really any zoning rules in Texas
that apply to rainbows."
Plans for the rainbow ranch are being drawn up by Kelly Wood,
owner of an Amarillo-based construction company. Wood said he
plans to meet with Marsh in the next few weeks to discuss the
details.
The rainbows are only the latest Marsh art project to adorn
the Panhandle city. He had a mesa painted to look like it's floating
and a pool table built to football-field proportions.
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