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| Where steel meets wood London, ON March 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
It’s an ideal spot for a quick sit-down, and before long I’m enjoying a quiet break in the middle of a deserted clearing surrounded by tall trees.
Inevitably my attention turns to the picnic table itself, because it’s made of powder coated steel and I can’t ever recall seeing one like it.
The lines somehow speak to me, and without giving it much thought I reach for the camera and start composing.
It doesn’t take long for this strange perspective to present itself to me, an angled juxtaposition of hard-edged modern humanity backstopped by a timeless stand of trees. I can’t quite figure out if it means anything, but I’m happy with it all the same.
Indeed, maybe it doesn’t need to be figured out at all.
Maybe it’s enough if we simply allow ourselves to play with the ordinary instead of passing it by as somehow unworthy of our attention. Because I’m guessing nothing is ever really ordinary at all if we choose to look at it through a different lens.
As I leave this idyllic spot behind, it occurs to me that maybe none of this has anything to do with picnic tables at all.
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