Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Now
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below Sidewalk Graffiti | Wind Chimes | Radio Waves Sidewalk
Graffiti (detail) Scratched, scrawled, or stamped into drying
concrete—mostly from the 60s into the 80s—is a fragmentary and
tragically conventional body of folklore. Sidewalk Graffiti
(click to enlarge) Wind Chimes (detail) When we did the house
types survey, we also paid attention to the presence of wind
chimes. They were all over—bamboo, glass, shell, metal tubes.
Depending on where you stood, the force of the wind, and the
time of day, you could hear several chiming, turning the
neighborhood into a carillon. Wind Chimes (click to enlarge)
Radio Waves (detail) Unlike the wave fronts of wind chimes
which—requiring a lot of energy to move the air molecules—never
get very large, radio waves don’t propagate in air. They
propagate in space and travel undisturbed thro