What Am I? LbNA #65871 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Marissa Moon  |
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| Plant date: | Sep 21, 2013 |
| Location: | 11190 NE 12th Place |
| City: | Bellevue |
| County: | King |
| State: | Washington |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | pauls101 |
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| Last found: | Apr 10, 2014 |
| Status: | Far |
| Last edited: | Sep 21, 2013 |
THIS LETTERBOX HAS BEEN RETIRED AS OF JULY 2014.
What Am I? ~ CLUES
Panted by Marissa Moon and her dad, MoonPop, on 9/21/13
Active as of: 12/26/13
When you see an object, a room, a landscape, anything, what is it to you? How do you perceive your world, and how is your perception of something different from your mother's or your best friend's or your boss's? This letterbox ponders these questions.
In a break from many of my other boxes, these clues will be simple and simply put - no magic in this one. Be your own guide and form your own thoughts of the place without excess babble from me. The letterbox is not a goal, an endpoint, or even the focus of this expedition, only a landmark for me to nudge you (with questions) towards an exploration of perception and impressions at McCormick Park in Bellevue. (:
McCormick Park is a unique place to do a letterbox on perception. It has no play areas, sports courts, or fields. Nor is it a unified whole. It is long and narrow, a silver, maybe 40 feet wide at its widest and broken twice by streets. How do you perceive it? As an oasis in the city? An artificial hold for manicured nature? As an actual park, even in the absence of amenities, or just a garden with walking trails and flowers in which to mediate and think? A pretty fence between the city and residential neighborhoods? What is your impression of it? Worthwhile? Useless? Whole? Divided? Genuine? False? No answer is right or wrong.
(Formal directions: From I-405, take NE 8th Street exit west. Turn right on 108th Avenue NE. The park is on NE 12th Street, and runs from 106th Avenue NE to 112th Avenue NE. (2.83 acres) * On NE 12th Street, turn right on 108 Ave NE. Almost immediately, take another right on NE 12th Place, which is a dead end street. (Do you really perceive it as a dead end, or as a hidden corner with little branches of possibilities too small to be noted?) It curves to the right and then left. Around that second bend to the left is a strip of curb side designated as three hour parking for the park.)
Enter the park. First impressions?
Follow the collection of tiny rocks west. What gives them the definition of a path?
You will pass under a structure. Is it a horseshoe, a bridge, a gateway arch, or something far more exotic? Is it useful in practice, to serve someone's own interest, just to look at, or not at all? Do you perceive it as a positive or negative addition to the landscape?
Cross something that could be considered as much part of a unifying web as a divisor of the city.
Follow the stone path till you reach the Garden of Alternatives, bleached white by the sun and smoothed by the rain. What's your impression of it? Is it beautiful or ugly? Useless or significant?
Enter through something. Space? A doorway? A hole? All of the above?
Stand in the middle, with your back to the skyscrapers.
Take it all in. How do you perceive it? What is it? A room? A mock Stonehenge? A basin?
(That form on your right - what is it? A settee? A rock?
Those shapes ahead and to your left - what are they? Stairs? More rocks? An entrance, an exit?)
Ahead of you, look underneath the slab of rock that sits between two rock pillars, on the right hand side. There hides the letterbox. THIS LETTERBOX IS NOW RETIRED.
But what is it? A treasure, a token, a victory, a magnet, a beacon? A box, a registry, a record, a secret, yours, mine, everyone's?
You tell me.
Perception and impression are integral parts of our lives. Don't let them all slip away - analyze them, ponder yourself. The conclusions may surprise you.
Also, please note that we will have a letterbox just down 108th Ave NE at Bovee Park. CLUES COMING SOON!
~ Marissa Moon
and her dad, MoonPop
P.S. Please send me, Marissa Moon, a comment! I'd love to know your thoughts on the letterbox, the park, perception, impression... :) Thank you!
*Directions adapted from http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/mccormick.htm
Copyright 2015 - This is an original work. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied or reproduced in anyway without the author's express permission.
What Am I? ~ CLUES
Panted by Marissa Moon and her dad, MoonPop, on 9/21/13
Active as of: 12/26/13
When you see an object, a room, a landscape, anything, what is it to you? How do you perceive your world, and how is your perception of something different from your mother's or your best friend's or your boss's? This letterbox ponders these questions.
In a break from many of my other boxes, these clues will be simple and simply put - no magic in this one. Be your own guide and form your own thoughts of the place without excess babble from me. The letterbox is not a goal, an endpoint, or even the focus of this expedition, only a landmark for me to nudge you (with questions) towards an exploration of perception and impressions at McCormick Park in Bellevue. (:
McCormick Park is a unique place to do a letterbox on perception. It has no play areas, sports courts, or fields. Nor is it a unified whole. It is long and narrow, a silver, maybe 40 feet wide at its widest and broken twice by streets. How do you perceive it? As an oasis in the city? An artificial hold for manicured nature? As an actual park, even in the absence of amenities, or just a garden with walking trails and flowers in which to mediate and think? A pretty fence between the city and residential neighborhoods? What is your impression of it? Worthwhile? Useless? Whole? Divided? Genuine? False? No answer is right or wrong.
(Formal directions: From I-405, take NE 8th Street exit west. Turn right on 108th Avenue NE. The park is on NE 12th Street, and runs from 106th Avenue NE to 112th Avenue NE. (2.83 acres) * On NE 12th Street, turn right on 108 Ave NE. Almost immediately, take another right on NE 12th Place, which is a dead end street. (Do you really perceive it as a dead end, or as a hidden corner with little branches of possibilities too small to be noted?) It curves to the right and then left. Around that second bend to the left is a strip of curb side designated as three hour parking for the park.)
Enter the park. First impressions?
Follow the collection of tiny rocks west. What gives them the definition of a path?
You will pass under a structure. Is it a horseshoe, a bridge, a gateway arch, or something far more exotic? Is it useful in practice, to serve someone's own interest, just to look at, or not at all? Do you perceive it as a positive or negative addition to the landscape?
Cross something that could be considered as much part of a unifying web as a divisor of the city.
Follow the stone path till you reach the Garden of Alternatives, bleached white by the sun and smoothed by the rain. What's your impression of it? Is it beautiful or ugly? Useless or significant?
Enter through something. Space? A doorway? A hole? All of the above?
Stand in the middle, with your back to the skyscrapers.
Take it all in. How do you perceive it? What is it? A room? A mock Stonehenge? A basin?
(That form on your right - what is it? A settee? A rock?
Those shapes ahead and to your left - what are they? Stairs? More rocks? An entrance, an exit?)
Ahead of you, look underneath the slab of rock that sits between two rock pillars, on the right hand side. There hides the letterbox. THIS LETTERBOX IS NOW RETIRED.
But what is it? A treasure, a token, a victory, a magnet, a beacon? A box, a registry, a record, a secret, yours, mine, everyone's?
You tell me.
Perception and impression are integral parts of our lives. Don't let them all slip away - analyze them, ponder yourself. The conclusions may surprise you.
Also, please note that we will have a letterbox just down 108th Ave NE at Bovee Park. CLUES COMING SOON!
~ Marissa Moon
and her dad, MoonPop
P.S. Please send me, Marissa Moon, a comment! I'd love to know your thoughts on the letterbox, the park, perception, impression... :) Thank you!
*Directions adapted from http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/mccormick.htm
Copyright 2015 - This is an original work. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied or reproduced in anyway without the author's express permission.