Something I wanted to say, but to no one in particular.
So I went to take some photos at Swan Point Cemetery yesterday, which was nice.
Before I did, someone asked me why I felt so attracted to a graveyard.
And so, while I am sitting here looking through the photos, and while I was walking around the graveyard, I thought about that question, and for me, it comes down to two reasons:
1) Graveyards are peaceful. I mean, a lot of sorrow gets poured out there, but I think of them as accepting places, places that take in that sorrow so people don't have to hold onto it. That doesn't make them sad places, but it's a place of peace, a place for people's grief to rest.
2) Graveyards, no matter how well maintained, are one of the forgotten places in our culture. People leave their grief there and forget it, but even after that, decades later, people forget and they move on, and they die, and the memorials that people erect to the people in their lives get forgotten and weather away. Soon no one knows who the dust under the soil belonged too anymore. I feel a connection with that, and the other forgotten places in the world.
This is why I love graveyards. Well, that and they have a fantastic mix of geometric precision, and natural organic lines. I like that too.
Before I did, someone asked me why I felt so attracted to a graveyard.
And so, while I am sitting here looking through the photos, and while I was walking around the graveyard, I thought about that question, and for me, it comes down to two reasons:
1) Graveyards are peaceful. I mean, a lot of sorrow gets poured out there, but I think of them as accepting places, places that take in that sorrow so people don't have to hold onto it. That doesn't make them sad places, but it's a place of peace, a place for people's grief to rest.
2) Graveyards, no matter how well maintained, are one of the forgotten places in our culture. People leave their grief there and forget it, but even after that, decades later, people forget and they move on, and they die, and the memorials that people erect to the people in their lives get forgotten and weather away. Soon no one knows who the dust under the soil belonged too anymore. I feel a connection with that, and the other forgotten places in the world.
This is why I love graveyards. Well, that and they have a fantastic mix of geometric precision, and natural organic lines. I like that too.