From the puma lurking above a deer, to a wheel coming off the train tracks and rolling down into one of Folsom's many ravines, a piece of public, outdoor art is meant to force visitors to do a double- or even a triple-take.

Folsom Bound is a seven-foot-tall sculpture that stands next to the Sacramento Regional Transit tracks on Leidesdorff Plaza near the intersection of Sutter and Reading streets.

Philip Sciortino's Folsom Bound is meant to capture the iconographic and pictorial concepts of a time and place when California's first passenger railroad was completed in 1856.

But it also reflects something else.

"Inclusion is a big word. The very idea that many people are relevant here," said Sciortino.

The challenge is to make sure you look close enough and long enough to see all that is

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