Ah, the farming life. 

The Absentee Farmer Replaces His Loyal Guard Dog with a Spy Cam and an Internet Link

This is art.

It’s not just the farmers who are expressing their culture’s deepest wishes in unexpected art forms. The neighbours are up to something, too. Here’s the lip of a public park below this farm …

Did Somebody Sneak Over their Property Line and Spray Some 2-4D?

Well, it sure looks like it. 2-4D works by making plants outgrow their ability to keep up to themselves. It usually looks a bit cancerous. In this case, though, it’s art.

These are human cultural portraits written in the body of the earth. In this case, something akin to body piercing, I think: body piercing you can buy in a plastic bottle down at the garden shop and squirt on, just like that. The goal appears to be to enjoy access to the park without the annoyance of the, um, plants in the park, and the entire worlds that life within them, like this just a few feet in one direction…

A Beetle in His Universe

This is not art. It’s just a beetle.

..or like this alfalfa plant just to the other side of the killing fields…

 Alfalfa Plant that Escaped the Death Sentence

…just inches from the one that, oh, I weep.(This isn’t art, either.)

 So, why would anyone want access to a park that was weedsprayed to whip it back into shape? Why, for this, maybe:

Warning: This is Not Art

It’s just a dead cherry tree nobody cleaned up. The ironies are rich. Sometimes I think the world is fooling with us.

But, hey, nobody said art had to be beautiful, right? Well, ok, they did. And is the beautiful art? Well, you know, maybe that’s the point — that whatever is going on is not always made by human hands. Sometimes we get lucky and forget ourselves for a minute.