A couple years ago, I visited a totem pole museum in SE Alaska. It had these photographs from the late 1800s of poles outside of the Haida family longhouses, along the beach. It seems the families would add new poles periodically, leaving the old ones to rot. The older poles would grow hairy with age. From the shoulders of frogs and crows and people  would sprout colonies of huckleberry and hemlock. The plants and sculpture together seemed to say something about where we gardeners fit into nature. At best, we’re tapping into some pretty ancient stuff, some sort of powerful lifeforce that someday will grow to cover us, too. I think that’s what I like about the sculpture in your post – it’s already half-decayed, you can recall the machines it came from. It’s covered in rust, and I can just imagine your bean plants overtaking it.

Joshua McNichols
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