August 26, 2009. I’m still learning how to focus my camera phone, so some of these don’t quite do justice to what my eye sees, but I hope you get the idea. On the street outside a school in Chelsea is a tree, and the roots bubble around the trunk and fill the square left open by the sidewalk. I took my last civil service exam there. As children tumble out of the school, they scrape and rub their soles across the nodules on the roots. It has created a pattern of textures, punctuated with deep green moss, that reminds me of ceramic work that I saw in Red Hook.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Tree Root Rub
August 26, 2009. I’m still learning how to focus my camera phone, so some of these don’t quite do justice to what my eye sees, but I hope you get the idea. On the street outside a school in Chelsea is a tree, and the roots bubble around the trunk and fill the square left open by the sidewalk. I took my last civil service exam there. As children tumble out of the school, they scrape and rub their soles across the nodules on the roots. It has created a pattern of textures, punctuated with deep green moss, that reminds me of ceramic work that I saw in Red Hook.
