Look at the bones!
Apr. 4th, 2004 03:35 pm
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.
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Date: 2009-07-28 03:32 am (UTC)"Though other sections of Lynn Woods south of Walden Pond are covered in XC trails and fire roads, the massive "Boneyard" mural best sums up the granite-filled battle zone to the north. Painted on the side of a cliff, the mural depicts hundreds of skulls and bones and carries the message: "Take the knowledge that you will someday be these bones and enjoy now all that is precious." The Lynn Woods Reservation—precious, indeed."
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Date: 2009-07-28 03:51 am (UTC)