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It's easy to rant about things, but harder to use the energy and the mind to invent, forge, or make something. How have YOU been creative during this time?

Families with children were inventive during the new work-from-home paradigm or they'd go nuts! šŸ˜Š In education, a sensory path aids in cognitive development by providing a series of movements that redirect focus for information retention and goals-reaching. Usually used in schools, it was beautiful to see this idea play out during the shutdown.

Creative parents took chalk to walk and created interactive sidewalk-chalk obstacle courses for their kids. It's problem-solving at its best.

#education #children #workingfromhome #positvity #solutions #creativity

RebelAlliance 6 June 24
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I do masonry/ stonework ... I get paid well to think about ... think through ... all sorts of weirdness while I ā€œmeditateā€ over stone placement.

So, what are the major differences between a work of art that serves as a wall, an intentional wall that will stand for generations, and a pile of rocks?

@govols
A ā€œpile of rocksā€ has no ā€œstructureā€ it is simply a ā€œpileā€ ... further, it rarely serves a ā€œpurposeā€.
A ā€œwork of art that serves as a wallā€ (?) You could really mean almost any wall that includes artwork from Ninevahā€™s Gate (some 3500 yrs old) to the Fresco found Midasā€™ Palace in Knosos/Crete (some 2500 years old) to the ā€œFreedom to Writeā€ graffitied Riverside Drive Stonework on the West Side of Manhattan ... these all imparted a ā€œmessageā€ imposed on the underlying structure. Or, are you referring to stonework carefully placed to create an ā€œimageā€ with or without regard to structural integrity of the structure itself.
ā€œAn Intentional Wall That Will Stand ...ā€ Its a structure designed to serve a purpose. Its primary importance and difference is that, where it may be also decorative, it remains a structure that can be relied upon for hundreds, thousands of years.

Personally I like to do esthetically pleasing structural work ... not to say I always have that choice. I like going past work Iā€™ve done and seeing it ā€œfitā€ ... endure ... become ā€œpartā€ of the landscape.
I did a copper roof for a College Amphitheatre in the Caribbean 40+ years ago ... It is kind if a charge to look it up in a Satellite Picture and see that roof gone verdigris looking even more beautiful than the day I finished it ...

@Bay0Wulf , and this right here is why I toss out little easy questions like I sometimes do. Thank you for taking the time.

When I attempted a few phrases and failed at meaning, I was after more like piling up rocks to lastingly serve as a barricade, but without craft or art as a guide; a pragmatic construct intended as a barricade, skillfully laid with longevity in mind; through a desire to create separated spaces, whatever the motive, the whole creative capacity of a people is deployed toward the task of making a permanent monument to the wisdom of it.

Something like that.

I'll look up some pictures of the ones you mentioned. Thanks!

@govols
Well, throughout most of the northeastern USA all throughout the woods and many other places there are big, long ā€œpilesā€ of rocks ... also sometimes called ā€œstonerowsā€ and are often useful as a place to get material from for building.
These stonerows served a couple purposes but, were only incidental. As farmers plowed their fields in the springtime they would often come up against rocks ... stones ... that had been pushed up from below. They would then pick up the rock and remove it from their field ... usually to the nearest edge of the field.
Over time, these rows got to be quite big ... youā€™d be surprised how many stones ā€œfloatā€ to the surface. These rows then became solid ā€œedgesā€ to a field ... often becoming a definite border to oneā€™s ā€œpropertyā€ or ā€œholdingā€ since most farmers worked their property right to its edge.
Most of those old farms and fields are gone now but you can ā€œseeā€ the actual layout of a ā€œfarmā€ by walking these rows through the woods ... its amazing to realize that all of what is now woodland was once under intensive agriculture ... often times property deeds lay out current property lines right along these stone rows.
These days surveying is done via GPS but its startling to see how ā€œdead onā€ these old rows still are.

So ... thereā€™s a ā€œpileā€ of unstructured rock which has served a purpose for some 300 years or often more ...

@Bay0Wulf When a person piles the rocks into a stone formation, don't they examine the stone to see where it will fit? So, in a sense the rocky wall is created.

@Starlight
If youā€™re speaking of stone rows ... no. A farmer had more important things to do than screw around with the rocks ... they simply chucked them onto the pile.
Note that I didnā€™t say ā€œstone wallā€ ... I build stone walls ... thereā€™s actually a difference.

When a glacier pushes stones in front of it and them leaves a pile when it retreats, does it ā€œcreate a wallā€? When a guy on a bulldozer pushes a bunch of stones out of the way in a long line of offal, do they ā€œcreate a wallā€?

I simply have to ask;
Are you trying to make some sort of weird philosophical point or simply pontificating on some particularly stupid question?

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