Prada Marfa

I couldn’t leave Marfa without visiting Prada Marfa.  

It is a permanent installed sculpture by the artists Elmgreen and Dragset and is located about 35 miles outside of Marfa in the small town of Valentine, TX.  The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005.  It cost $80,000 for development and was never intended to be repaired so it could slowly degrade naturally.  Since then, it was vandalized twice – three days after completion and again the middle of March.  I so happened to be visiting and was able to capture this…

My ode to Beyonce’s pic

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