Utah's newest public art display is a bit of a thinker. And it's not little. It weighs 25,000 lbs.
It's a 25,000-pound, 40-foot-long orange shipping container held up on a large black pole, tilted in a way that its tallest end rises 39 feet in the air among the massive warehouses that align Salt Lake City's industrial-heavy Northwest Quadrant.
This shipping container is actually the centerpiece of nine shipping container-themed pieces that have popped up on the exterior walls of massive warehouses across Salt Lake County in recent years, which have become popular draws for passing truckers. Salt Lake City’s newest public art piece, “Trade Balance,” stands in the Northwest Quadrant of Salt Lake City on Thursday. The piece completes Utah’s largest above-ground art installation and is a nod to the Northwest Quadrant’s commerce, logistics, manufacturing and distribution industries.
"It really is a remarkable visualization of the Northwest Quadrant and its identity as ... the blue-collared piece of our state that keeps our state running," he said. " so important to industry, so important to our population and, of course, so important to our economy."
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