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Flanary's artwork outside the Bay View library is made up of four rocks placed around the building. The biggest and most prominent rock is a six-ton irregularly shaped piece of taconite iron ore, which is set into a concrete foundation. The iron ore has a 20 inch hole carved in the center. The
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program. The program began in 2000 and requires that 1% of the total budgeted construction for projects exceeding $ 5000 be applied to public art. The Bay View library fell into this category. Flanary's commission included a work inside the library that consists of three mosaic maps on the linoleum
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lobby floor. One of the maps represents Bay View at the time of its settlement in 1846. Another map represents Bay View in 1900, the year that a steel mill on the lakefront stimulated the community's growth. The third map shows Bay View as it is today.
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other three boulders are granite, and are each placed next to a tree. All of the rocks have words carved into them. The boulder next to the
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its environment, growing out of, rather than intruding into the landscape."
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which cost about $ 20,000, was created as part of the
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