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this morning I was out-poetried by a sidewalk that had thoughts on pain, impermanence, resilience and beauty

A grey concrete sidewalk, embedded with tiny pebbles. There's a huge crack running down the center, but it spirals like a strand of DNA and has become filled with purple flowers that have fallen from nearby trees. It looks like a purple stream
22 May at 18:29 | Open on mstdn.social
42 comments
Penguinflight
Annie
hallvors
SteveJB

@ElleGray Thank you. I have to wonder how many of us would have had the presence of mind to recognize this.❤️

22 May at 18:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Sam Crauwels
elle
Andrew Feeney

@Oddly @ElleGray Yeah that's where my mind went too!

23 May at 0:04 | Open on phpc.social
Femme Malheureuse

@Oddly @ElleGray I thought of kintsugi *and* hanafubuki (花吹雪).

Hanafubuki describes the drift of petals falling and accruing like snow in a storm.

Hanafubuki kintsugi.

23 May at 3:45 | Open on mstdn.social
Monsieur_Lepetit

@ElleGray
"Boss, the roads won't hold no more!
The cracks are spreading, and we ain't got no more tar!"
"Patch em! Patch em with flowers. do it! NOW!"

22 May at 19:07 | Open on toot.community
ahimsa
kosure

@ElleGray Ma Nature kitsunging the heck outta that.

22 May at 19:10 | Open on mas.to
robcornelius

@ElleGray this is the most beautiful thing. Thank you

22 May at 19:43 | Open on climatejustice.social
amiltonishikawa

nice picture, nature always wins

22 May at 20:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Sci-Fi Girl

@ElleGray

"And I have filled my broken places,
with the petals of fallen flowers"

❤

22 May at 20:25 | Open on starbase80.wtf
AriSunDog, Spooky Version!

@ElleGray "out-poetried"!!! Fanfreakingtastic. Love it. Thank you! 💕

22 May at 20:46 | Open on beige.party
Alex

@ElleGray man a dandylion growing in a sidewalk crack gets you the same effect. If it takes that, which is MUCH CLEARER to get that message, it's a pretty low bar.

22 May at 21:42 | Open on toot.community
elle

@smolbean32 what a strange reply. You seem very unhappy. Your personality isn't helping things.

22 May at 23:13 | Open on mstdn.social
Alex

@ElleGray NYEHEHE YOU HAVE FALLEN PREY TO ONE OF MY TRICKS! I DID NOT CARE ABOUT THIS POST IN THE SLIGHTEST! MY ONLY GOAL WAS TO MAKE A STUPID REPLY TO WAST 5.7 SECONDS OF YOUR TIME! I WAS MERELY BORED OUT OF MY MIND AND DECIDED TO DO A BIT OF TOMFOOLERY! WITH A PURPOSEFULLY OUTRAGEOUS COMMENT I MANAGED TO CATCH YOUR ATTENTION! IN THIS WORLD IT'S WASTE TIME OR HAVE YOUR TIME WASTED! (Caps intended)

22 May at 23:29 | Open on toot.community
Ivo Escobar
Nobu from Norway

@ElleGray That’s such an awesome take 🤙🏼🤙🏼

23 May at 0:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Flaming Cheeto

@ElleGray there's a vein of beauty running through all of it

23 May at 1:05 | Open on mastodon.online
Betterifyouneil
gmoke
Michael Lyon
Frances Larina

@ElleGray

Nature's version of Kintsugi road repair?

23 May at 3:23 | Open on sfba.social
Lachesis

@ElleGray
what a moment
beautiful alt text

23 May at 3:48 | Open on ohai.social
kayenne

@ElleGray i initially read this as "out-paretoed" and that's also beautiful in a very different way

23 May at 4:19 | Open on social.wxcafe.net
Chris Combs (he/him)

@ElleGray that's really nice!

reminds me of this artist who makes paper castings of sidewalk cracks emilyfussner.com/cracks-castin

23 May at 4:21 | Open on mastodon.art
Mike Nelson Pedde

@ElleGray

One for you. Not nearly as eloquent as yours...

A somewhat abstract image of a section of pavement, dark gray but with meandering white cracks. Moving up the centre of the image are a series of black lines, roughly parallel, as if someone tried to bandage the pavement back together.
23 May at 4:44 | Open on universeodon.com
elle
Mike Nelson Pedde

@ElleGray It's almost as if someone was trying to bandage it together... 🤕

BTW, I'd suggest you title your image Kintsugi 🙂

23 May at 17:30 | Open on universeodon.com
Julia

@ElleGray This must be the natural model of the Japanese art of kintsugi 🤩

23 May at 7:26 | Open on fandom.ink
Børge

@ElleGray The wound is the place where the light gets in. The cracks are the places where the flower petals gather.

23 May at 7:39 | Open on tutoteket.no
Luke

@ElleGray very Andy Goldsworthy looking!

23 May at 8:43 | Open on social.sdfeu.org
Vincent 🌻🇪🇺

@ElleGray How wabi-sabi of the sidewalk

23 May at 9:41 | Open on mastodon.social
Michelle Murphy
Dave Pease ☑️

@ElleGray I couldn't tell these were flowers in the timeline image and thought instead that Bobby Fingers had buried something here

23 May at 14:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Tidings of Comfort & Jo

@ElleGray it reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy’s work.
Some examples. But if you don’t know his work and you think this is beautiful you’d love his art and check more out.
he also deals with ideas around impermanence, the ephemeral, fragile, transformation, using nature and time. My most favorite artist.

mossandfog.com/andy-goldsworth

25 May at 19:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Sjors

@ElleGray I love how the alt txt gives us context on how you perceive the scene/image

26 May at 0:32 | Open on mastodon.online
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