The circle outside for the inside

Three years ago a fantastic storm hit the western coast of Baja California, Mexico.
That time the Pacific Ocean dumped a large amount of dead trees on the beach.
Also at El Triple.

Working on the PS-series, the trees were disturbing the images.
The beach became anecdotic: showing how by coincidence and temporarily dead trees were washed ashore.
The focus of the action of a PS-series image was in competition with the information slipping into the picture of the dead trees.
Therefor diminishing the core message.

An effort was made to take the trees off the beach.
To have a stretch of beach without disturbing visual elements.

The trees hauled away where dragged to the location where the Fuso Szulc was parked.
And there they were planted right in front of the expedition vehicle.
As if it was a forrest.


This made the view as seen from the Fuso Szulc more lively.
And it attracted birds coming for a rest or to feed on the insects living in the trees.

When El Triple was revisited last year, to check if any resort building had started, it was immediately noticed that all the planted trees had been knocked down.
An act of vandalism?
Aggression?
Protest?

It was partly responsible to decide to leave El Triple immediately.
Besides the building activity going on.

This year a new visit was made to El Triple anticipating that due to the staggering economy building of the resort might have come to a standstill.
And it indeed has been halted.

Reason to stay at El Triple and enjoy all its good sides.
Of course there are these structures on the hill in front of the Fuso Szulc.
But no building activity is going on and friend Juaquin lives there.
Except that right in front of the Fuso Szulc were all those knocked down dead trees.
Not a pretty sight.

Suddenly yesterday the idea was born to do something with those dead trees.
To transform them into something new and positive.
Something more visually appealing.
And possibly symbolic and meaningful.

Hence, the idea was born to make a circle of the objects.

A bamboo pole was planted in the perfect place and with a piece of rope a circle was drawn in the sand.
Next, the hands protected by leather gloves, the trees were placed on the circular line.
And now in front of the Fuso Szulc is this circle of trees.
A much more intriguing view compared to when they were simply scattered all around.



And there is another thing.
What a person sees around him or her, probably influences the thinking and even the emotional and psychological well being.
Usually, if a person lives in a total mess of stuff around him or her, it demonstrates that in the head it is a mess also.
This often can be noticed with alcoholics.
Or people confused.
Hence, it makes sense to have everything around in an organized way to influence the mind to be more straight, logic, positive and useful.
Remember how it feels after cleaning your house.

Late in the afternoon neighbor Juaquin came for a visit.
Immediately he had a question.
Pointing at the wooden circle: “What is that?”.

It works!


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