Look at the bones!

[eclectic_boy]

Walking in the woods in northern Massachusetts. What's that colorful shape in the distance?





As you get closer you can make out a little more detail.





Get closer. Click this bottom photo for the full-size version. (That's Susan Ruff providing the scale)



Yes, it really is.... a gigantic mural ossuary. Thirty feet high. In vibrant red, blue, and green. Hidden somewhere in the woods, complete with this motto in the upper left: "Take the knowledge that you will someday be these bones, and enjoy now all that is precious. ...Ichabod..YME.2001"


Someone, probably a local who hung out in these woods, has gone and made a buried folkart treasure that's, if not at the level of the Watts towers, is still stunning and beautiful. Especially considering how difficult it must have been to spraypaint this on a vertical rockface--I doubt the artist built scaffolding; presumably they lowered themself from a rope! Next time I'm in Boston I may lead an expedition to it -- email me if you're interested.