This post is so late that after I post this post I shall have to post again just to get caught up! ugh. Excuse: Got quite a bit more hours at work (A fantastic thing truly), and it was Mid-Term week and I've been squirreling around so I was in full panic mode. (Still kinda am cause I haven't seen my scores. If I did poorly I may have to drop a class which is always embarrassing for a know-it-all).
So I MEANT to post this last Monday as a follow-up to the previous post. I had a few questions about the photo of the well-hung inspiration to my pretzel creations, or at least I imagined I would as NO ONE COMMENTS. Seriously guys, ask questions! IT'S SO LONELY IN HERE. And by in here I mean inside my computer, because I'm cool like that and can digitize myself and literally surf the webs.
Anyways, this photography was taken on that Montana archaeology trip that I've discussed before. Our dig leader took us about twenty minutes out from our campsite (by the van of improbability, that thing should NOT have been able to drive where it did). We had to hike down into a canyon and true to my Holes name BillyGoat (You remember that Disney movie Holes where everyone got names like Barfbag and Caveman?) I was quickly separated from the majority of the group as they cautiously made their ways across rocks that I had climbed recklessly on all fours.
Scattered throughout the canyon were these carvings or people and animals and unfortunately, more recent names etched with dates only spanning back a few decades. Now I'm of mixed feelings about this of course. A lot of people will look at graffiti with distain and condemn those who did it.
However as a possible future archaeologist I can't help but see it as the petroglyphs and pictographs of the present. Honestly we do not know exactly why people carved and drew what they did so long ago. We have theories, some seem so likely that we except them for truths, but they are not. So when we look at a carving done several thousand years ago of a human hunting a deer is it really that different from a picture of a pot leaf? Both show us what a group of humans were doing during a particular time.
BUT! I do NOT condone the destruction of previous materials. So the guys who carved their names on a bolder near the petroglyphs on this canyon. Cool. Those who carved a giant penis across ancient petroglyphs? Not cool assholes.
I digress, It was an interesting feeling to stand in a spot where humans had stood thousands of years ago and etched. To stand level with them in some ways and see the individual marks they made to create this representation. The sense of history, a feeling with not everyone gets to have when they step into an old church and an ancient campsite, was almost overwhelming.
Out of all the carvings though, this one was my favorite. Something about how the artist carved himself (or just a man) next to a thunderbird struck me as beautiful. Call it reading too much of myself in the stones etches of the past, but I'd like to thing this artist had dreams of flight, to see the world as the thunderbird did.
Your pretzel was very well created. Next time you need to do the thunderbird, haha!
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