Handprint
Now that I’m actually commuting in to work a few times each week, I’ve been on the lookout more for stickers, graffiti – the small things that I really didn’t get to see, when we were working remotely all the time.
A small thing that caught my eye: a handprint on a lamp post, downtown Chicago. As a sign that I truly am a nerd, the first thing I thought of was the “Hand of Saruman.”
Perhaps this is what this was? But my follow-up question would be “Why?” and “Why in Chicago?”
I stared at this a while, trying to figure out how one would go about recreating this… if someone told you to go replicate the image on another nearby street lamp. It looked too clean to be paint, but maybe I’m overthinking it.
Was this graffiti? Some kind of artistic statement? Or just some Streets and Sanitation working, who got some paint on their hand?
I guess if the police were really wanting to figure this out, the fingerprints are all there. And they have all the information they’d need.
In the background: the building that was Eitel’s Old Heidelberg Restaurant, and was formerly an Argo Tea. And now is a Blick’s art store. I’ve been coming downtown earlier and earlier, so I haven’t yet seen whether these bells still chime at 9AM.
Every time I walk by, I hope that they’re still running. And I also keep making plans to go in, and see if I can talk my way into the upper part of the building, to get a glimpse of the inner workings.
A simple street corner. Filled with so many questions.
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Random sidenote: on thinking about Saruman, I was reminded of Christopher Lee. And the fact that he has not one, but two metal albums on his resume.
avoision (June 19, 2023 at 2:01 pm)