Ripple

The mural  "Ripple" based on a James Gallagher's watercolor was inspired by the movement and sounds of invisible animals on the edge of a wooded darkness and the subtle and ubiquitous effects of man on the world around him.. It represents a small section close to a Greenbelt Meridian's “no shoes, no fences, no roads, no buildings, no man’s land” corridor in nature. For future travellers, it might be a walkway, a trail, or a river for you to float your boat. However beautiful it seems, this painting does not represent the Greenbelt Meridian. There will be many who ask why we need a Greenbelt Meridian with all the inconvenience it will bring to our life. Look at all the beautiful nature that surrounds us! What will exist here in 5 thousand years?

A Land Where I come From, watercolor by James Gallagher

A blackbird ambles through a yard like a child navigating its way through a tall field of corn. With wide trails, between strait growing leaves of grass, the soil preserves many possibilities for food today.     

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There is a road, no simple highway,

Between the dawn and the dark of night,

And if you go no one may follow,

That path is for your steps alone.

Ripple in still water,

When there is no pebble tossed,

Nor wind to blow.

(Excerpt from the Ripple lyric by Grateful Dead)