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Elise Morton

Meet the Australian artist bringing new life to a grain silo in rural North Dakota

It’s not every day you see an artist dangling 75 feet in the air, calmly brushing a giant concrete wall like he’s painting a picket fence. But that’s exactly where you’ll find Guido van Helten – perched high above the ground in a boom lift, steadily working on what will become one of the most striking landmarks in Minot, North Dakota.

“When you use these old structures to kinda share stories and use them as a vehicle to carry an image of identity, it becomes part of the landscape,” he said.

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