Heman Park: Hermania & Billfork 03

Then we come to a Billfork revisit. To remind the reader, Billfork was the site of an important art happening or toy avatar event about 2 years ago. Nothing’s really happened there in the intervening time, but today I decided to import an interesting looking rock from the area above Billfork where I got the bottles and other objects for the aforementioned event. I also have a pot full of bricks and several other objects ready to go to Billfork from the same place when I get back there. Soon!

And as the case with Hermania, Billfork has changed a bit. I simply do not remember all these exposed bricks pictured below before. Will look really good in Billfork, I believe. New event!

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The pots appeared different from before, and also arranged in unremembered ways…

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Pipe stuck in ground.

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Interesting rock in area.

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A smaller rock from the same “gathering” area, with an unusual seeming notch, almost like a doorway or passageway.

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Neighboring rock with interesting red band following its curving top.

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Here’s the pointy rock I took back to Billfork with me. Very flat on the bottom.

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Herman Park: Hermania and Billfork 02

This day I also decided to revisit Hermania and TILE Falls for the first time since last summer or fall. The below photo is taken from behind TILE Falls, opposite the actual drop. The sunlit rock to the left is as yet unnamed, but still perhaps very, very important still to the TILE mythos…

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… for on the bark of what appears to be another newly fallen tree — or fallen since my last visit — *3 apparently “man-made” notches are found, pointing directly to the island just beyond and below. My educated guess would be that the aliens have once again predicted my visit and left a sign. “Pay attention to the falls and rock!” they might be indicating.

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Also this piece of lichen was hanging on a rhododendron branch directly above the island.

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We’ll get back to TILE Falls and neighboring Hermania Central soon enough. Here’s a parting shot for now of the log crossing TILE Creek just upstream.

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I should also note that the beaches of the area have *completely* changed in the meantime, and, for example, the position of Jupiter Beach, if we can still call it that, has moved downstream maybe 10 yards from where it was, and also enlarged (see below). There’s also more exposed rocks in the heart of Hermania, around Whole Tree, and a beachy strip of land runs from the log pictured above almost all the way to TILE Falls, curving left in the process. Most of this was simply not present before.

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Herman Park: Hermania and Billfork 01

Shots from the mouth of TILE Creek, or at least where it enters Drink Lake. I believe I may study this delta region each spring to see what turns up.

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A large tree has fallen across the fence surrounding Drink Lake near where TILE Creek dumps its waters.

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Yellow flowers found on two lumps (“islands”) within TILE Creek here. This appears to be coltsfoot.*

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Fence at western end of Drink Lake, already blog famous for the Boris Spider Phenomenon from Spring 2012. There’s the newly fallen tree again in the foreground.

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Drink Lake Delta.

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On the way to Pencilinsula, whose mountain laurel and rhododendron underbrush has grown so thick as to basically block access to the lake here, and the also blog famous Point Rock. But that’s okay — maybe the land needs to heal from past beaver ravages (SEE: Quadrobeavs).

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You can see the TILE Creek bed extending well into Drink Lake, which means the lake is considerably shallower at times.

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Old shoe found and turned over at Pencilinsula.

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* Coltsfoot foliage for later reference, perhaps:

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Frank Park 02

Another interesting hike occurred perhaps the day after Korean Channel exploration. The focus this time was Greene Knob and a stream which tumbles off the side of it. No, I’m not talking about Falmouth Creek or Con Creek this time, but the creek *between* them, another as yet unnamed feature. It’s almost entirely hemmed in by rhodododendron from its source to Jacob I. Road, a distance of 1/3 to 1/4th of a mile. But at various points the stream is still accessible if you’re willing to bend down under the rhodo for a spell. I’ll have more to say about this creek soon. An appellation is needed, obviously.

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Larger rock near the stream’s source.

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On the same hike I ran across this obviously man-made shelter near the top of Greene Knob, after I ascended from Jacob I. Road. Height gained: 500-600 feet. Again I have no idea why someone would make this. Did someone actually use it for a shelter for a number of nights? Of course the culprit might have been now local legend Michael Too — a good chance.

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Large meadow atop Greene Knob, just above the shelter. A number of white rocks appear in the foreground.

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Then on the downward side of the ridge with the shelter (Shelter Ridge, then?), comes not one but several rock ledges of some significance. The below photo shows a point where you can descend to get to both the largest ones.

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Ice flow in one of the rock ledges. I’ll return soon for better pics; I deem the ledges a pretty significant find. They exist directly west of Whitehead Crossing, which lies at the base of this same mountain, or, more accurately, in the Green Stream valley between Greene Knob and neighboring Allen Knob.

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Frank Park 01

These pictures were taken several weeks ago in Frank Park. The first comes from a large meadow in the lower heart of the park, probably not pictured before in this blog.

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But the first really interesting Blue Mtn. hike of the season involved exploring down the Korean Channel’s Green Stream, starting where Jacob I. Road crosses it. Along the way on my hike was encountered, in order, The Land of Blue and Purple, Con Creek (mouth), and the interesting as yet unnamed location seen in the several pictures below where the channel is rather cleanly divided into two parts by this clog of rhododendron, somewhat in the style of Green Oz Creek cut in half by Dark Space (formerly: Brownie). At the beginning of the rhododendron, this Green Stream “Dark Space”, appears these pipe pieces. Reasons for them being here in the absolute middle of nowhere? Unknown. Really, I can think of no reason except they blew in from somewhere else, but they’re pretty large for that explanation. Was someone planning to build a road through here at some point? Stumped, still. Is there another land artist working these woods besides me? If so, we can pretty safely assume they’re alien in origin (see: Bill Mountain Alien Infestation related posts). Yup, that’s my best guess right now.

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Upper part of the Korean Channel looking back from the position of the pipes — whence I came.

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Soon the creek cascades past rocks small and not so small.

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To the right, walking down, I was rather amazed to see the following solid white rock face staring back at me. Nice!

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After some tricky hiking, I was able to emerge from the rhododendron into the lower, open part of the channel. A beer can on a rotting log was encountered along the way. But I didn’t make it all the way to the mouth of Green Stream, as I had done once or twice before when navigating this same hike. I decided to turn around soon after the beer can, just as I glimpse a larger rock island in the creek ahead. Unfortunately my pics of this island didn’t turn out well.

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On the way back, I decided to photograph this small beachy area along Green Stream, where I easily jumped the creek. I suppose Ford Beach would be a good name.

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Ford Beach details.

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Green Stream near the mouth of Con Creek.

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5 1/2 acre plot of land

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March 20, 2014 · 8:43 pm

Falmouth series…

… may be complete. If so, here’s the way it lays out in Philudoria’s Falmouth Gallery:

Floor 0/Basement:

Steptoe Animation:

Collage 01 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 02 (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 03 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 04 (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 05 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 06 (Steptoe, WA)

Floor 1:

Collage 07: (“Pepperland”)
Collage 08: (ME)
Collage 09: (“Shiningland”; WY)
Collage 10: “Beetlemania” (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 11: “Good Grief!” (“Pepperland”)
Collage 12: “Red Rock” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 13: “This is The Place” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 14: “2:23” (WY)
Collage 15: “Grayson (Dis/En)closure“ (Mythopolis, NC)
Collage 16: “Woods Slider Upper” (Mythopolis, NC)
Collage 17: “Separate but Equal” (Lake District, UK; Jeogeot, Second Life)
Collage 18: (Sky Valley, GA)

Floor 2:

Collage 19: Greenup Revisited 01 (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 20: Greenup Revisited 02 (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 21: “Heads/Tails?” (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 22: “Erie Pool” (Jeogeot, Second Life)
Collage 23: (Abingdon, VA)
Collage 24: (“Shiningland”)
Collage 25: “Bee Lee Line” (Abingdon, VA)
Collage 26: “Stonethwaite End and Restaurant” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 27: “Nobody’s Home” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 28: “Forgotten Green” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 29: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych)
Collage 30: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych)

Floor 3:

Collage 31: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 32: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych x2)
Collage 33: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych x2)
Collage 34: “Goodbye VWX Town” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 35: (animation) (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 36: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 37: (- [extension of Collage 35])
Collage 38: “Cover Up” (animation) (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 39: “End Ball” (Wiltshire, UK)

Floor 4:

Collage 40: “5 1/2 Acre Plot of Land” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 41: “Clock Rock” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 42: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 43: “Joe Rock” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 44: “Fairy Branch” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 45: “Painting<Painter” (ME)
Collage 46: “2989” (Blue Mtn., NC; animation)
Collage 46.5: (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 47: “Sky Diamond” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 48: “Ghost Sticks” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 49: “Jasper 04 Revisited” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 50: “Unboxed” (Second Life; animation)
Collage 51: “Humanvillians” (unk.)

What I noticed about these were that many, if not the majority, remain unnamed. Contrast this to the 100 Art 10×10 collages, all of which had names if I remember correctly. Also Gilatona-Lis collages had names, I believe. I just produced them so fast in this case. There are 2 diptychs, just like in Gilatona-Lis, and just like in that earlier series from a year ago. There’s a “normal” diptych and then a double diptych, the largest work of each series respectively. Falmouth contains many more animations than Gilatona-Lis, and I always count those as *1* collage now, as opposed to Greenup, say (which contains 4 animations that I count as 8 separate collages).

From Collage 25 on to Collage 38, the setting is the tiny hamlet of Stonethwaite, UK, in the heart of England’s Lake District. I count Greenup Gill photos as Stonethwaite location for simplicity’s sake. That takes us almost to the end of the series, but what might be the final, final collage is instead set in Wiltshire County, England, the setting for almost all the Gilatona-Lis work but the first such backdrop used for the Falmouth collages. It takes place within a spring crop circle, coming from Yarnbury in 2012 — called “End Ball”.

Again, I’m wondering how to approach an overall interpretation. I think Hucka D. wants me to start in Stonethwaite and bring in other resonations. Once more, the series begins solidly in Steptoe, WA, forming an overall “Steptoe Animation” — first of its kind in my art. Then there’s a pause in the action as I complete my “6 Weeks of Shining” text, then a resumption with the creation of the Shining Pyramid within the Sgt. Pepper cover, a possible subject of some note in and of itself. Or at least Hucka is inferring it is.

Hucka D.:

You start with the largest work and plug in other Stonethwaite “side” collages. This is Collage 32/33, but can actually be divided into 4 parts. Collages 26-31 before it take place within the limits of Stonethwaite as well. Collages 19, 20, and 34 surrounding this core come from nearby Greenup Gill. The Collage 35 animation instead takes us to the interior of the largest Stonethwaite structure, the Stonethwaite End and Restaurant as we’re calling it in this here blog. We do not have interior shots before this, nor afterwards really. Who is waiting in the End and Rest.? Days Ravie of The Kniks is who, along with Edward. A different Edward is found in Collage 16, one of 2 set in Mythopolis. And Dorothy of Oz is in Collage 35. And the two sides of the Korean Channel “E”, one for each of the 2 part animation. Ray turns around in his chair, and the “E” switches from front to back as well. The Korean Channel “E” reappears in the second and last animation on this floor: Collage 38, or “Cover Up”. There it is associated with Box Peanut, also seen in the other, smaller Stonethwaite diptych (Collage 30). Box Peanut meets and interacts with actual 12 Oz Mouse Peanut in this collage. Likewise, Box Peanut is similarly interacting or talking, perhaps, with the Korean Channel “E” in Collage 38. All of these objects must be seen as one in the bigger Falmouth picture. Why is Kubrick’s hand covering up the interaction in Collage 38?

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I’m toggling back and forth between Collage 30 and Collage 38 in attempting to answer, Hucka D. The interaction is identical. Ringo Starr, with an actual star placed on him in Collage 30, has transposed to a gray, handless being in 38. This gray person, besides having no hands, has a giant 8 ball in place of a head. This may represent a black hole, Hucka. “Infinity the star that would not die”. (pause) So let’s turn to the Green Being right behind the E in Collage 38. He/it is associated with the green algae forming in the Tarn of Leaves, a summit just south of Stonethwaite. Stonethwaite can actually be seen in the distance in this animation, and has its own “E” as a marker. This is the forwards version of the same “E” again. In the Greenup series, Stonethwaite is similarly associated with the letter “D”, emerging from a miniature version. And this is one of the few (only?) images not transposed to the big collage of Falmouth, where we turn around the heart of the village to take all in. But back to Ringo — we also can identify the Gray Being as Ringo because the number 8 is attached to him through the Shining Pyramid, where he assumes the 8th position of 10 or 11. The Gray Being in 38 and Ringo in 30 have almost the same torso position. Yet lacking in hands, the being in 38 cannot possibly shake hands with anyone, as Starr is doing with Coburn in 30. The shiny star on Starr here is linked to the Texaco star through the fireman’s helmet. Let me pull up a picture. Peanut wears it in the background, and now Wendy/Shelley Duvall is doing the same in the foreground. This is another link, because the 8 ball contains a *red shadow* on it where a fire helmet might be hung on it. This is just the reflection of a neighboring pool ball, however, from the picture I culled it from. Then in the other part of the diptych with Collage 30, or what we’re calling Collage 29 here, we have another representation of a black hole that Baker b. is staring at in the formerly dark hole — now brightly illuminated. This rectangular bit of brightness is actually found first in Gilatona-Lis.

Hucka D.:

I want to stop you there. The black hole is the tunnel underneath the Devizes castle. This is one of the two closed entrances. This is the black hole. There’s something very important about this.

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Eyes stare from the tree misted by the reclining, “spotty” “E” here, Hucka D. This is yet another spirit formation, just like the eye and the dough face from Devizes. The eyes were just taken from a GoogleEarth Streetview photo of Stonethwaite. Collages 25, 29, 32, and 33 have this in common — all Streetview, and all from Stonethwaite.

Hucka D.:

Collages 25 and 29 mirror each other (once more). They come from opposite ends of Stonethwaite, where you can’t see from the central 32/33. Both 25 and 29 have that same “E” present, the same as the Korean Channel “E” obviously. None of the images of 25 and 29 reappear in the big 32/33 double diptych except for the 2 walking Beetles at the far right of 25. The other 2 walking Beetles from Abbey Road are seen in the next collage, 26, along with Lisa the Vegetarian perched on a rock in a misty and impossible Stonethwaite waterfall. Fall has come to Stonethwaite. Opposite of Spring. Lisa V. seeks Paul McCartoony, but instead finds Nobody’s Home. Mr. Nobody, who left his shadow outside by the top of the falls. Walking McCartney is not the same as McCartooney, the one who gives such sage advice to the girl. He tells her how to live a life of vegetarianism beyond the Piggies. Yet in Collage 31, McCartooney and wife Linda appear *without Lisa*. Is this another animation. They appear in the center of Stonethwaite, sitting on a wall about a red phone booth. Or actually sitting on top of a car parked next to this phone. Story Room has taken over the village with their alien presence. Presents?

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Then… go ahead.

Hucka D.:

Then in Collage 28 we see the back of a house with images also not found in 32/33. So we’re looking all around Stonethwaite, like cubism as you said. We even go inside a restaurant later in Collage 35, another animation. That’s the one with Days Ravie and Edward Swift awaiting us, along with Dorothy and the “E”. They are giving information to you, us, about the mirroring process of Stonethwaite, and how it is a portal maker. You must go to Dock Tarn next.

bb:

Am I not yet finished?

Hucka D.:

No.

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Cover Up

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Hucka D., the Falmouth series has climbed even with the Gilatona-Lis event from last year, and maybe surpassed it. Gilatona-Lis collages were almost exclusively Wiltshire backdrops. None of those has appeared in Falmouth (yet!), but ’bout everything else has. Seathwaite may be next.

Hucka D.:

Falmouth is not more important than Gilatona-Lis but it is different and unique and evenly valued, as you’ve determined. Surprise (!) Now you have to figure out what it means. As you’ve also guessed, the parts of the series are linked more through the *floors* of the Falmouth Gallery, instead of the traditional [Art 10×10] tiers of 10 collages apiece. Gilatona-Lis was a step removed from this tier process but still dependent on it as a framework. Falmouth is further away. Falmouth is sort of a catch-all.

bb:

I don’t even know where to begin to analyze Falmouth.

Hucka D.:

You have an animation based on Steptoe at the beginning. That’s new in itself. No true animation has been made of your collages before. Then toward the end you have another 4-part Avebury style collage, except set in Stonethwaite. And incorporating basically all the elements of the 2 Stonethwaite collages that come before this, both from the 10×10. Amazing, again. And in the collage above, which is an animation, you have the presence of TILE. You have red glow atop the 8 ball to the right, an [early 2010 crop circle in yellow rapeseed], a green being — the 4th member of Story Room actually — removing his head [standing on green algae of the lake/pond]. You’ve seen this entity before in Stonethwaite. Let’s return to him. Then the blue of both the “E” and mirrored Square Peanut complete the 4 TILE colors. Fantastic. You had to go out of Stonethwaite to see this.

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But you can still see Stonethwaite in the distance. The “E” is centered within[ it].

Hucka D.:

Kubrick flies up the mountain, up Big Stanger Gill or maybe Little Stanger Gill — hard to tell without a map. “Where are they, where are they?” he thinks. He’s worried about the entities formerly in the backyard of one of Stonethwaite’s b&b’s, where the green and gray beings of the collage were kept. Are kept. But Kubrick also wants to keep *filming*, that is, from your perspective, [keep making] collages. So he brings along the camera. He and the cameraman’s hand he holds in the 1st Stonethwaite collage of Falmouth become one and the same. So we see Kubrick there, we see him in the Stonethwaite End and Restaurant with Day Ravies and Dorothy and the “E”s. And also Jack there — another hand issue. Then we see him and Jack again playing handsies outside perhaps the same b&b the green and gray dudes are found behind in the big Falmouth collage. Also the crashed Mr. Beam is there who reappears here, head dipping in the Tarn of Leaves, seemingly. Is he dead?

bb:

Dunno, Hucka D. (pause) Grapeshot is indicated by the tip of his foot. Let’s take a look at a larger version of the same crop circle, a crop circle that also plays an important role in “Baker Bloch in England”.

Hucka D.:

Indeed.

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bb:

Well, we can just pull up Falmouth 24 for a look-see.

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It’s the out-of-place grape shot at the top of the formation his foot points to, or the tip of his foot overlaps. Out-of-place.

Hucka D.:

We could go deep into that aspect alone. This is TILE. This is Tyle.

bb:

The crop circle is from Yarnbury, a Y town. It appears near the bottom of a master list of crop circles by location down through the years.

Hucka D.:

As you’ve further guessed, the 8 ball is Ringo again, as determined by his placement in the Pepper Pyramid. Ringo assumes the 8 ball position there, as John is the 7th, McCartney the 9th, and Harrison 10.

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042 View of Stonethwaite from the Stanger Gill path

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E

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“E” Exhibit, 02

Big E as seen from the north, with the sims from the lower part of the Korean Channel adorning the individual square surfaces on this side, 1 per square again. These would be the sims Karoz is most familiar with, starting with Xilted at the right hand bottom, closest to his Noru home. A broad strip of land extends from Xilted northward through Glasso, which Karoz has run a number of times now in its entirety.

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On the south side of the Big E, then, are Channel sims from its upper part, which include another long strip of land but on the west side of the Channel this time, and considerably more narrow than the one on the lower, east side of the Channel from the snapshot above.

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Let’s start with the latest and work backwards. This is the interior of the Stonethwaite End and Restaurant. Ray Davies, perhaps the same as Dr. Blood, and Edward Swift wait within, along with Judy Garland as Dorothy. We haven’t seen Ray and Edward before in Falmouth’s Stonethwaite collages, but Dorothy appears in the first, in the process of toppling off the roof of this same building. An “E” is next to her on the roof, perhaps the object directly responsible for the spill. Falls (Estatoah Falls, Georgia) are on the hillside in the background, mirroring Dorothy’s fall. Dorothy is culled from an image of her losing her balance while walking the pigpen fences in The Wizard of Oz film, and falling in among the pigs. This comes precisely at 4 minutes into Dark Side of the Rainbow. Amazingly she doesn’t get the least bit dirty; when we see her being carried by farmhand Zeke out of the pen (later: Cowardly Lion), she’s still clean as a whistle. What does this rooftop “E” have to do with the fall? It’s obviously a symbol of TILE and Second Lyfe’s Korean Channel. Now we find a set of mapped “E”s inside as well, along with a Dorothy (has she recovered from her fall, or is that still in her future?). There are 2 “E”s now, one forwards (1st animation) and one reversed (2nd animation). Although on opposite sides of the room, both “E”s are next to lamps, and the second is additionally propped up beside a lit fireplace. As the prominent color blue of the “E”s represents water (aforementioned Korean Channel), then we seem to have a water-fire polarity implied, or hot vs. cold.

Hucka D.:

I was woke up to help. Good day baker b.

bb:

Hi Hucka D. As I was telling the reader or readers, what could be the last Stonethwaite collage of the Falmouth series — and the last of the series as a whole — seems to acts as a frame for the first. Both focus in on the Stonethwaite End and Restaurant, the finest such establishment in Stonethwaite village, probably, and certainly the largest. It’s not called that in reality, however.

Hucka D.:

Collage reality is fine for here. Best to give it a false real name, then.

bb:

What are the “E”s?

Hucka D.:

Two ends of the restaurant, and also 2 ends of the village. You are not finished with Stonethwaite yet, however. You better check.

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