Oct 31, 2011: Stones with Faces

[sandypossum]

I looked at your stones as just some child fooling around with paints.

They are clearly painted with a brush, and the detail is so steady and fine that I can't see them having been done by a child, even though the style is simplistic.

And hey, it just occurred to me that your daughter put Amy Winehouses's face on the stone! The shadow gives it a nice beehive hairdo.

Also, I just found this link, in particular the quote

before we packed up and headed for home, we hid the finished faces in the house.

But not in a bucket buried in the woodshed or in a bathtub full of soil, I notice.

Sometimes, when I read about some ancient curiosity being dug up, I wonder if it isn't anything significant or mystical at all, and is just something banal that somehow lasted better than other more significant things that were done at the time, e.g. maybe the cavemen kids used more durable paints to draw bison on the cave walls, and the ones the adults did - incredibly realistic ones, or ones with explanatory diagrams, got lost because they preferred to use other paint.