There’s art (these wire sculptures are gorgeous.)
And then there’s… art?
South Carolina decided to redo its flag after the massacre at the Mother Immanuel Church, doing away with the Confederate emblem at long last.
What I hadn’t realized is they haven’t finished deciding what they want to replace it with.
Thanks to the New York Times, I finally get why they call it the palmetto state: during the Revolutionary War, the British fired on their fort but it was made of palmetto logs and those held off the cannonballs.
We once had a palm tree cut down and it took three men three days because that wasn’t a trunk, that was a swirl of thick tough fibers that jammed the chainsaws again and again and nearly refused to go. So yes, I could definitely see those holding off cannon balls, and whoever cut them down had a huge job.
The state had what they thought was a stylized modernized palmetto silhouette–and then they asked what people thought of it.
No possible way. No flapping fabric toilet brushes in the breeze up there, just, no.