Unwritten Future - The Mound At Avebury
by Mark Tisdale
Title
Unwritten Future - The Mound At Avebury
Artist
Mark Tisdale
Medium
Photograph - Photo
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There's a lot of meaning to this picture for me. Grounded in the literal, it's a portion of the great earthen mound that surrounds what survives of the massive ancient stone circle at Avebury. That alone is fascinating. You're literally walking on history when you walk along the top of it. This is not a natural hill. Thousands and thousands of years ago, our ancestors piled this up with their own hands. There were no bulldozers or anything we'd consider remotely capable of this kind of work. Can you imagine building a circular mound that way? They must have felt this place was seriously special and/or sacred!
But the next layer to this picture is the image itself and what it represents to me. As I watched my fellow travelers walk across the top of the mound in a long line reaching to the distance, I saw the way the clouds and the landscape converged in the distance. There was just a beautiful carefree feeling to the moment. Despite the ancient earth beneath them, the picture spoke to me far more of an unwritten future and unknown discoveries to come. It wasn't the here and now or the long ago but the mystery as well of what might come next.
I don't often wax quite this philosophical or poetical, but that's still what I see when I look at this picture years later, the past present, and future as one. But I think this image works on whatever level suits you. Whether you love the beautiful landscape, the knowledge of what came long ago when it was built in what is now Wiltshire, or if you see the far flung possibilities.
Note: the great circle at Avebury, Stonehenge, and other antiquities in Wiltshire are part of a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site.
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September 9th, 2013
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