Showing posts with label Platform stumps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Platform stumps. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Stumps Re-born -- As Platforms

 

Even chopped half-down, an old-growth "mother tree" doesn't die quickly. Given a chance it keeps on birthing. For this one, the forest she lived in disappeared but she herself survives -- in a rural-residential area of Oceanside, on Vancouver Island. (You can see the axe cut halfway up on the right, made by 19th century loggers.)


So an old-growth mother-tree left standing in the woods can become a platform for new life. In a parallel way, maybe the stumps left after city trees are cut down (in the case below, to make room for construction) could become platforms for statues also knocked down because someone didn't value them -- dismissing their human career like some would dismiss a tree's arborial "career".


Maybe some creative person might rescue an attacked statue and place it on a beheaded stump, in a garden or park: stumps to re-platform History and preserve Nature both?! As and where required -- why not? After the de-platforming, the re-platforming. It's all about preservation (thinking outside the box-hedge? 😄


See also "The Gardens of History", in Shifting Landscapes -- in bookshops & libraries.



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