I swear, I thought this tree was looking right at me! I don’t know if those are natural or not...but they look just like eyes. I can spot three large ones clearly. And a couple smaller eyes on the tree to the right.
Okay, so this may not be Earth art exactly, but those soda can tabs look almost like footprints to me. Anybody else agree? I didn’t place those myself, but it’s interesting to find them in that position.
I have no idea what that says. But I don’t think it matters. I was reminded of the Aborigines here, and how they use tree bark (among other things) to paint on. The Aborigines had a purpose in putting their symbols on the bark and I’m inclined to believe so did whomever wrote this here. Both are using the tree as a means of communication.
Again, this wasn’t set up by me. But I think this has an interesting symbolism. It’s almost as if the tree is trying to keep the litter off the ground. An unique way to recycle...
This is similar to the previous picture. The tree holding the plastic bottle, keeping it off the ground. I can even imagine those bits of bark as hands and fingers.
I found a bunch of these on the ground...are they acorns? Anyway, I decided to make a cairn out of them. To mark my place at that particular spot at that particular time. I wonder if it’s still there. I’ll have to go back and see if I can find it again!
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Those cones are magnolia cones ... and I think that the street people put their newspapers in the tree so they dont blow away or get wet from the ground - they live on the street and in the park and store items where ever they can! Urban-indigenous peoples making earth art!
I think I took a picture of that tree in Monroe Park with the newspapers a couple of weeks ago. Its pretty cool if it changed from what was in my pictures to what it is in yours. Yet again, it may have been another tree. I think I saw our "earth artist" the other day, a homeless man who had been loitering around the tree for a couple hours. When I first took the picture, I felt that it was a rather interesting example of human resourcefulness; when life takes away everything, there are still certain things that are coveted by people, in which they go out of their way to hold close to them.
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