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A year ago today the installation of [ARMY] opened at Naropa’s Nalanda Gallery in Boulder CO, on January 11th, 2008, with the performance of “Soldier Cry.” Thank you all for the great success of that endeavor. In this field in this landscape at Mountain Water Artists’ Retreat, the soldiers will be deployed next, during the summer, 2009. I hope you will join me again. 2

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The soldiers in [ARMY] began their tour of duty as fenceposts maintaining a boundary for more than one hundred years here in the ranchlands of southern Colorado.

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This fence line from which they came ran east-west along a line now within Mountain Water and no longer marking an active boundary.

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The first of the SOLDI E RS arrive back at Mountain Water, March 2008.

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Throughout the spring, more SOLDIERS were trucked down the Front Range and arrived at Mountain Water. They gather here in the field where 36 of them will be arranged in a grand diamond on an axis oriented between Greenhorn Mountain pictured above and Mount Blanca pictured on the next page. These two mountain peaks are known as “dragon heads” in Chinese Land Form feng shui. They communicate with each other across the Huerfano Valley. 5

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A group of SOLDIERS seen against the Huerfano Valley and Mount Blanca.

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Looking toward the Greenhorn terminus of the central axis line established October 15th, 2007.

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After an invasion by a neighbor’s cows early last summer, this was the only soldier left standing of 14 placed along two arms of the diamond pattern. We turned our attention to repairing the old barb wire and cedar fence surrounding Mountain Water. 8

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Thank you for your support. Look forward to regrouping for the Mountain Water installation 2009.

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