Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Beginning: Weave, weave, everywhere.

Weave is everywhere. Without fail, you will see it in every city. One hopes to see such a thing carefully glued, sewn, or woven into a woman's (or man's) hair, adding color or volume or flair. But pieces get left behind. Strands can be found strewn about in bizarre clumps, some of which resemble rodents when quickly glanced at. Initially, little clusters of real or synthetic hair seen out of context of a human head is unsettling. Why is it there? How did it lose it's grasp on the head from which it came? Are you sure that's just weave? Such finds are, as you read, nesting in cities all over the country- maybe all over the world. Rolling along, battered by rain and wind and mud, getting caught in weeds or fences. Trapped in hedges and undergrowth, such pieces are forgotten and left to great unknown.
Here are two pictures of weave left behind: the very beginning of a look into weave nation.This image was taken on my high- tech flip cell phone. The camera is obviously highly prized in this model, offering a crisp image of weave caught in some weeds with trash. These little puffs were lost and left in the rain. I snapped a picture in the early morning of Saturday April 2nd in Baltimore, Maryland. Left in the front yard of a house on the 37 hundred block of Greenmount Ave. in the city, do the owners even know it's there? And just one block away there was another piece waiting to be noticed:
Found in the 38 hundred block of Greenmount Ave. in the epic city of Baltimore, Maryland, this piece shows more of the braiding that is common in weave.

Reader, I hope this brief post and the bad pictures helps to keep weave in mind. If you find pieces, take a picture and note the location. Share your thoughts on weave and what it means to a city.

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