It's impossible to tell from my overly bright photograph, but the object is a stick, wound with ribbons, festooned with large "jingle bells", and surrounded by empty mason jars. While certainly not an intimidating display, it was a bizarre one, one "premeditated" enough to suggest some obscure ritual function (scorn pole? a VPR?).
The bizarre objet immediately reminded me of Karl Edward Wagner's horror tale Sticks, which would seem to be the inspiration (although I don't know if it was acknowledged) for the wooden figures that feature prominently in the Blair Witch Project. The story itself was inspired by a tale told by pulp artist Lee Brown Coye, who often incorporated sticks or lattice-work in his illustrations for "weird" tales.
I apologize for the lame photo, and will return to the scene to take a better one- hopefully, the object/installation won't be washed away by a sudden flood...
I think I set that up decades ago, in memory of a lost tee shot...
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I think I set that up decades ago, in memory of a lost tee shot...
ReplyDeleteTee bagger!
It was just north of the Lew Rudin golf course, now that I think of it.
Is Lew Rudin g.c. Mosholu?
ReplyDeleteThat's all I remember playing...Van Cortlandt and Mosholu.
Certainly they were both urban park experiences, Mosholu far more so. I remember a time when we had to skip the 7th hole (or perhaps the 8th...it was a short par 3) because the neighbors were having a barbecue on the green.
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Thought for a second you were going to find a corpse, & this was about to become an episode of Law & Order BBBB.
ReplyDeleteCroquet??
ReplyDeleteI apologize for the lame photo, and will return to the scene to take a better one- hopefully
You know they're counting on that, don't you?
You know they're counting on that, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI'll bring my pet spidergoat as backup!