![]() My initial thoughts were that it was a cell phone tower but instead of being disguised as a tree, like so many, it was some kind of thing with tennis balls attached. Only on seeing reviews of it on TripAdvisor did I decided to look into it further and searching for information on the internet. For the longest time we've debated what it was, why it was there, was it falling apart?, who put it there. This is definitely a talking point as you hurtle by it on the Salt Flat section of the I-80 in Utah. The story that is told as to why this sculpture is here is that while traveling west fromSalt Lake City, Momen was "struck with the thought that the monotony of this seemingly endless journey could be relieved by some reference point in the desert – some focus of color that would arrest the eye amid this expanse of featureless terrain." You view the sculpture while traveling past it on Interstate 80 at 80 miles per hour stopping along this interstate is permited only in cases of emergency and no provision have been made for a pulloff for motorists at the site. The sculpture is located on the Utah salt flats along the stretch of interstate known as the “Wendover Death Strip” because the drive across the barren land is so monotonous motorists have been known to doze off and not make it to their destination. It is 87-feet tall and was built in the mid 1980s (dedicated in 1986). ![]() It's official title is Metaphor: The Tree of Utah. When this sculpture was first created by Swedish architect, painter and sculptor Karl Momen, we knew it as the Tree of Life.
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