Movie Outline:
Lay clothing layers, Lay layers of ice cream in Powell , Lay layers of thought along the line
Add human characteristic and emotion layers to inanimate objects of the line, Add a blanket layer to the layers of earth
Yank apart a wood chip from the line, Yank off the layers to a banana from Powell
Embody a tree’s bark, Embody the layers of Openhym stairs
Rearrange the layers of clothing
Switch layers with a tree
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Lay your layers
Add a new layer
Yank apart the existing layers
Embody a layer
Rearrange the layers
Switch layers with something
On the line I stand, human, animal, and living. Skunks, deer, mosquitos, snails, spiders, stray pussy cats, leashed dogs, small children, insects, drunk humans, snakes, toads, slugs, lady bugs, birds, worms, inch worms, butterflies, dragon flies, fish, and other creatures I have not observed exist to the line. The plentiful array of plants infect my memory with green, and bright colors of late blooming floors and the dying, autumn leaves. Multiple types of grass, clovers, dandelions (yellow and white), shrubs, all sorts of trees, potted flowers, ornamental grasses, moss, lichen, vines, wild flowers, wild berry bushes, and the list travels longer than I could identify. I know all names of tree and fauna just as well I know the name of every shade of each color of the rainbow. Life can never have too many colors. Then there are the various mushrooms and fungi I found either on Powell lawn or in the forest floor of detritus.
The once living leaves, bark and branches, once fallen to the floor, are becoming part of the soil. Layers of leaves scatter the forest floor covering the roots like a blanket ready for the snow sure to come. Soil is made up of many organic materials: some still living, some now dead, and the rest never alive but a part of nature none the less.
The next layer down is actually physically many layers down. It is the Marcellus shale. This is a giant natural gas reserve which is way down beneath our feet. Actually this is a sublayer of a larger one that is the fossil layer. Part of the deposit contains large amounts of fossils, but fossils can be found other places on the line that are not beneath the surface where we cannot observe with our eyes. Go to the riverbeds that intersect, or the aesthetic river stones outside the lower layer of Powell. I have found fossils in these places on the line as well.
I ALMOST FORGOT THE BACTERIA! How could I forget the bacteria – the layers and layers of bacteria? Especially after I spent all that time trudging through the drainage tunnels… College campuses are full of bacteria and viruses. The line even travels through a few bathrooms and no doubtably over some form of underground piping.
There is also the life of the people that are living, which is forever embedded on the line. There is always something going on, movement to be lived, especially in Powell and Main Street.
This is a living line, always changing, as is the campus, the town, the mountain, the rock deposits getting sucks out beneath our feet. Think about all the layers of life that exist to this line, transcending the layers of time.
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Layers of personal experience/history
Physical layers (take cross sections of locations of the line)
Layers of research (photos, video, audio, text, poetry, drawings, memories, oral stories, maps, etc)
Layers of life on the line (animals to plants to decaying life – dirt, Marcellus shale, fossils I found!)
Layers of college life influence on the line
The line is a single layer in a series that would wrap around the world
Layers of sight (light, reflection, shadow, the unseen, etc)
Layers of human interference on top of the natural
Layers of branches above my head (in the forrest)
Layers of noises (all on top of each other)
Layers of footprints through time on the line
Things with layers that are on the line: leaves, cake and other foods (Powell), people (physically and mentally), buildings, trees, sedimentary rocks, mental concepts surrounding what is the alfred line and what it includes, the earth and foliage on the ground, etc
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LAYERS
layer |ˈlāər|noun ~ a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
There can be PHYSICAL LAYERS, like when it’s cold out you layer clothing, and FIGURATIVE LAYERS, like the different layers of your personality which make you who you are. Figurative layers also include layers of thought and perception, or layers that occur in a theoretical sense as statements.
If one phrases the wording correctly, anything A) is already in use as a layer B) can be used as a layer and/or C) is made of layers.
Example: MY LEATHER JACKET: A) since I got it from a thrift store, this jacket as I own it, is a layer in time B) I can put it on so it is the outer-most layer of clothing C) the jacket has layers of leather and fabric
Life is a complex series of overlapping layers. You just have to try new things to recognize some sort of pattern. Whether it is conventional or not, it doesn’t matter: what matters is that these layers you find make sense to you.
Journey Part II: Walk from parking lot through Powell, to Openhym, ENCHANTED FOREST!
Walk from Parking Lot to Powell: through the buildings I feel the need to stay silent
-Snails in the rock beds outside of Powell
-the flower beds have man-planted flowers
-fossils in the rock beds
-some of the rocks are like my “potato rock” (see earlier post)
- central ally of the student world
Powell
-Middle section: camera on the wall where the line exits the building; comfy couches and chairs match the floor tiles color scheme; square pillar near the down stairs is on the line; the pillows have a beautiful design of flowers in ribbon; there is gum stuck to underside of the tables
-downstairs section: goes through bulleton boards, the lounge to the right of the exit, and the men’s bathroom
-upstairs: I ate on the line in the dining hall and got milk on the line along with silverware
Note: Powell line is always very busy and equals a cross-road for all the people in Alfred University
To Openhym
-Openhym garbage, recycling and bikes are all partially on the line
-looking down the line, you see straight to Powell over the road and through the grass (a tree is kind of in the way)
-my car was parked on the line when I was moving into Openhym
In Openhym: I spent a few hours hanging out with my friend on floor 2 who lives on the line
-there were many snacks and a messy closet
-the line intersects the “kitchens” on each floor and the bathroom on the bottom floor
-I collected some snack items from my friends room… the nutella and pretzels was a tasty combination
The Woods: up then down
-ceiling and floor of leaves
-sunlight streaming through the thinning foliage
-the sounds of wilderness and cooing birds increased and the sounds of people and cars seeped away into the seems of time and memory
-creeping shadows catch me off-guard as they grow with the sinking sun
-litter mainly includes keystone beer cans, cigarette butts, bottle caps, broken beer glass, and plastic wrappers
-most memorable location: a college drinkers’ fort of a beer can pit with interesting decorations such as the hood of a car and a car tire
-golden light leaks out in between the trees like water slipping through the cracks of a small child’s fingers
