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The End for "FridgeHenge"?

Remember that version of Stonehenge made of old fridges - well it doesn't seem it will last as long ..

Stonefridge, also known as Fridgehenge, is an 18-foot-tall, 100-foot-diameter replica of the rock-ringed relics at Stonehenge. Instead of hulking, oblong sandstone blocks, the monument in Santa Fe was constructed of more than 100 discarded refrigerators of varied age, color and size.

And while its British counterpart is aligned with the sunrise that marks the summer solstice, Stonefridge is aligned with Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb. Horowitz said that's a nod to some of the most deadly technology man has dreamed up.

No one intended for Stonefridge to become a cultish phenomenon. Neither the artist nor the Santa Fe city officials who reluctantly permitted its construction thought it would stand for nearly 10 years. They didn't expect it to become a hot tourism destination or appear on television and in print across the globe.

But it did, and it has.

So when strong winds knocked down much of the structure last week, artist Adam Horowitz was devastated. Now Horowitz is bracing against a brewing political storm that could permanently remove the trash that he transformed into what he calls "a megalithic, post-apocalyptic monument to consumerism and waste."


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