This is part of a series of art projects by M12 Studio.  Here’s what they say about in on their website:

Last Chance Module Array. Last Chance, Colorado. (Modules No. 4, 5). With Onix Architects, Groningen, the Netherlands. 2015-2016.

The Last Chance Module Array is part of M12’s Prairie Module series. The array is made up of two cubes that have been extruded to create a visual field containing a multiplicity of crosshatched forms. Despite its formal simplicity, the Last Chance Module Array contains many points of conceptual entry, from farm and ranch architecture to rural planning grids. The forms are reminiscent of rural timber frame structures and pole barns—their timbers having been finished with a Japanese wood burning technique known as Shou Sugi Ban, wherein cedar is burned to make the material more durable. The overall arrangement resembles a ghost-like structure, akin to what artist Robert Smithson referred to as a “ruin in reverse.” Alone in the landscape, it appears newly built or, just as easily, to have always been there, disintegrating over decades.

It turns out that to get to this art you go by High Plains Raceway on Colorado 36.  This is a destination I go to frequently.  Going out east gives me another chance to photography the prairie.

Highplains Raceway

Bennett, CO

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Highway 36

I plan on going out here more as there are so many different looks possible - I ended going on a totally cloudless day which is NOT what I would have preferred.  Might also be worth seeing if I can get friends to pose out there.  Below is an example of someone else’s take on LCMA