‘Passage’, 2001-03, Patricia Leighton & Del Geist, Artist Team. Sculpture commissioned by G.S.A. Art-in-Architecture Program, for the new US Government Border Station in Roosville, Montana. The site-specific artwork pays homage to the movement of time and people within the region; it’s surrounding geological markers; boulders carried by flash floods at the end of the last glaciation; and the land usage by peoples from 8,000 years ago to present time. Five Precambrian Belt-rock boulders, 1.3 billion years old, each weighing 20 to 30 tons are sited among 18 earthworks, along a 1,000 foot corridor. The earthworks bring to mind the sand dunes and glacial cirques of the area. The boulders are elevated on steel legs alluding to a sense of carrying or uplifting, a metaphor of their history.
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