I spend a lot of time exploring, sitting and just thinking in a remote area on the New Hampshire coastline. It’s one of the inlets off the road that runs along the ocean. It’s an isolated, rocky spot that holds an amazing amount of interest to me and obviously to many others. For the last three or so years, starting in spring, rock art appears. Rock sculptures would take shape here and there at the far end of the inlet near a large formation of rocks. Rocks would be placed on top of each other creating statues. Some would be adorned with drift wood and seaweed. Each year the sculptures multiplied. By the end of the summer you could hardly find room to maneuver around them. The rock art stayed put until the winter storms knocked most of them down.
I thought it might be a group of locals living nearby that created this magic each year. Turning this isolated spot by the ocean into a mystical, Druid-like setting. What messages lay hidden in the creations?
Last Saturday, I finally got an answer. I happened out there very early and saw a man placing rocks on top of each other. I ventured out and introduced myself. It seems that he has been coming out almost every Saturday to add to the exhibit. He is not local and drives a distance. He told me that there are others who just come out and add to the arrangements. It was nothing mystical, just something that folks liked to do.
Since then I’ve read that there is an island off the Maine coast where rock sculptures mysteriously appear during the summer months. I think that it’s just amazing that people come and go, adding on to each other’s creative works. I imagine that there are lots of similar places throughout the world. Places where people take the time to create and not destroy.
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