playtime with blocks 1/3
a stroll 'round the Ring Road yesterday revealed this – whatever it is; in my opinion, just a stack of bricks.
apparently, a visitor to the island was compelled to play with the splay of bricks from some fallen structure of ago, ripping them outta their settled places in the ground (& i do mean "ripped": the moss on every brick was torn (note pits they'd been wrested from)) to make this preschool "tower" (was this some form of intended homage/echo of the structure elsewhere on-isle?).
besides the concrete feet of the long-gone hydro tower & its other strewn parts & a few shoreline stanchions from logboom days, this had been the only other area of remains of some indeterminable human structure, the pattern of their fall the only clue as to what it may once've been.
besides having wanted to leave the site intact as a "legitimate ruin", i've been watching the moss cover these bricks for some years now (excepting the much more recent deposit of the red brick on top), biding my time to get a photo of them completely swathed, their cinder faces eventual irregular regularities in the moss surface, an intention the realization of which has now been set back any number of years as the moss regenerates & fills in (if it can).
i would guess that someone thought they were being "artistic" or something but i fail to see how making an absolutely regular stack of bricks qualifies as "artistic".
i also fail to see why someone would choose to destroy the beautiful mossbed that was forming over it all; mere seconds of the suspension of thought to ruin something that'd been developing for who knows how many years.
if i knew who was responsible for this, i'd gladly make out a fine/ticket from the Loyal Canadian Art Police for "æsthetic vandalism", "impositional solipsism/dementation", "situational insensitivity" or some such similar charge (or all of them & more).
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playtime with blocks 1/3
a stroll 'round the Ring Road yesterday revealed this – whatever it is; in my opinion, just a stack of bricks.
apparently, a visitor to the island was compelled to play with the splay of bricks from some fallen structure of ago, ripping them outta their settled places in the ground (& i do mean "ripped": the moss on every brick was torn (note pits they'd been wrested from)) to make this preschool "tower" (was this some form of intended homage/echo of the structure elsewhere on-isle?).
besides the concrete feet of the long-gone hydro tower & its other strewn parts & a few shoreline stanchions from logboom days, this had been the only other area of remains of some indeterminable human structure, the pattern of their fall the only clue as to what it may once've been.
besides having wanted to leave the site intact as a "legitimate ruin", i've been watching the moss cover these bricks for some years now (excepting the much more recent deposit of the red brick on top), biding my time to get a photo of them completely swathed, their cinder faces eventual irregular regularities in the moss surface, an intention the realization of which has now been set back any number of years as the moss regenerates & fills in (if it can).
i would guess that someone thought they were being "artistic" or something but i fail to see how making an absolutely regular stack of bricks qualifies as "artistic".
i also fail to see why someone would choose to destroy the beautiful mossbed that was forming over it all; mere seconds of the suspension of thought to ruin something that'd been developing for who knows how many years.
if i knew who was responsible for this, i'd gladly make out a fine/ticket from the Loyal Canadian Art Police for "æsthetic vandalism", "impositional solipsism/dementation", "situational insensitivity" or some such similar charge (or all of them & more).
[next slide, please...