Qualla: Ozymandias on the Plains https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/amarillo-college-washington-st.jpg Qualla: Ozymandias on the Plains https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains Ozymandias on the Plains: Introduction https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit Who What Where Nguyen Why a/k/a Anonymous Cow, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a private ranch west of Amarillo, Texas, a pair of giant concrete legs rises from the prairie. Nearby lies a shattered face, half-buried in the earth. There's no plaque, no sign - just the ruins, exactly as Percy Bysshe Shelley described in his 1818 poem 'Ozymandias.' Stanley Marsh 3, the eccentric millionaire who planted the Cadillac Ranch, commissioned artist Lightnin' McDuff to build this monument to impermanence in 1997. The legs are 23 feet tall; the broken face lies where it fell. Unlike Shelley's poem, where the sculptor 'well those passions read,' Marsh's Ozymandias has no inscription - no 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' The Texas version lets the ruins speak for themselves. The piece is on private property but visible from a nearby road, decaying exactly as intended.

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/9wr2-ozymandias-on-the-plains-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ozymandias on the Plains: The Poem https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. J. Nguyen~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Shelley's 'Ozymandias' (1818) describes a traveler encountering a ruined statue in the desert - just the legs and a shattered face remaining, with an inscription boasting of the king's power. The irony is brutal: the mighty Ozymandias (the Greek name for Pharaoh Ramesses II) is f...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/9wr2-ozymandias-on-the-plains-the-poem.mp3 0:06 2 full Ozymandias on the Plains: The Builder https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit Lilykgamble, CC BY-SA 4.0. Stanley Marsh 3 was Amarillo's patron saint of weird. A television station owner and heir to an oil fortune, he spent decades filling the Texas Panhandle with strange art. Cadillac Ranch was his most famous project, but he also installed fake traffic signs around Amarillo with ab...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/9wr2-ozymandias-on-the-plains-the-builder.mp3 0:06 3 full Ozymandias on the Plains: The Sculpture https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. J. Nguyen~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Artist Lightnin' McDuff (Gregg Renfrow) built the statue from concrete over a steel armature. The legs stand 23 feet tall, truncated just above the knee. The face lies shattered nearby, half-buried as though fallen and slowly sinking into the earth. The execution is deliberately ...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/9wr2-ozymandias-on-the-plains-the-sculpture.mp3 0:06 4 full Ozymandias on the Plains: The Location https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. J. Nguyen~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. The sculpture stands on private ranch land west of Amarillo, near the more famous Cadillac Ranch. It's visible from Sundown Lane, a rural road, but accessing the statue requires permission. Unlike Cadillac Ranch, where visitors are welcomed, Ozymandias is meant to be seen from a ...

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]]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/r/8/ozymandias-plains-wk/9wr2-ozymandias-on-the-plains-the-location.mp3 0:06 5 full Ozymandias on the Plains: Visiting Ozymandias https://qualla.com/ozymandias-plains/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. J. Nguyen~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Ozymandias on the Plains is located on private property near Amarillo, Texas. The sculpture is visible from Sundown Lane, off I-40 west of Amarillo (take exit 75, go south). Do not enter the private property without permission. Cadillac Ranch, Marsh's more accessible installation...

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