Photo Courtesy Kelley Cox photo/Glenwood Springs Post Independent
SILT, Colo. -
Rock-hard buttocks are easy to find in the town of Silt, Colorado. But it has nothing to do with fitness.
A new sculpture unveiled on Aug. 21 in the town's roundabout is stirring controversy. It depicts a person rock climbing. Naked. Rear-end exposed and all.
The sculpture has become the 'butt' of countless jokes and wise 'cracks,' and has commuters scratching their...heads.
The sculptor, Blaine Peters, who owns Rock Work Unlimited in Rifle, was commissioned by the town of Silt to create the sculpture.
He told the Glenwood Springs Post Independent newspaper that he submitted a model of the artwork to town board members before it was created, including the controversial crack, and it was approved.
"What's funny about the whole thing is that the form has no ears, no mouth, no hands and no feet and no one's complained," Peters said.
"It's not a man or a woman. It's a human in the rawest form climbing a rock. What's amusing to me is that they don't see it for what it is. They only see what they want to see."
One resident, Forrest Jacobs, says he might organize a petition drive to get the sculpture removed.
A new sculpture unveiled on Aug. 21 in the town's roundabout is stirring controversy. It depicts a person rock climbing. Naked. Rear-end exposed and all.
The sculpture has become the 'butt' of countless jokes and wise 'cracks,' and has commuters scratching their...heads.
The sculptor, Blaine Peters, who owns Rock Work Unlimited in Rifle, was commissioned by the town of Silt to create the sculpture.
He told the Glenwood Springs Post Independent newspaper that he submitted a model of the artwork to town board members before it was created, including the controversial crack, and it was approved.
"What's funny about the whole thing is that the form has no ears, no mouth, no hands and no feet and no one's complained," Peters said.
"It's not a man or a woman. It's a human in the rawest form climbing a rock. What's amusing to me is that they don't see it for what it is. They only see what they want to see."
One resident, Forrest Jacobs, says he might organize a petition drive to get the sculpture removed.
