On the back side of the Manchester Climbing Wall (at the south end of the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge) there’s a public art installation that, despite being massive, hides in the ample foliage surrounding it.
Colorado-based artist Joshua Weiner designed and installed “The Path Untraveled” in the fall of 2016 just before completion of the “T Pot” (the above bridge). There are eight steel rings; each 17 feet in diameter; each weighing 3,800 pounds.
“Everything I do is site-specific, one-of-a-kind,” Weiner told Richmond Magazine at the time. “Maybe it introduces something to the environment, or it’s responsive to it.”
Yet somehow the installation hides on the hillside as trees and bushes grow up around it, then re-emerges when the city gets around to cutting those back. It makes for an ever-changing experience for the art lover and regular passer-by, one that also morphs with the seasons.