I took this picture in the metro in DC this weekend. Someone had spilled their coffee and I stood there watching the liquid twist and turn through the grooves of the tile as it slowly crept towards me. The honey comb pattern was obviously reminiscent of nature but the way the liquid took sharp turns to follow a different grove made me wonder what microscopic elements were affecting and directing the coffee's flow. While this spot is now nothing more than a sticky slightly caffeinated section of tile in the metro; to me it was small turn of events that made me stop and notice some details in the environment around me. Life gets so busy I think we spend too much time in our heads rushing from one task to the next all the while missing what is happening around us. I appreciate that earth art in general takes you out of your usual mind set, slows time almost and gives you a chance to change your pace and appreciate something just a little different. For that reason to me this felt like earth art.
the path that the cofee took could also be reminescent of the x shape that many artists use to represent a crossing of the paths. The spilled coffee could have, figuratively speaking, choosing the path that it wanted to take in order to reach a certain destination. People always come to a crossroads in their life at multiplr times and we have to choose which path to take, even though it could be the wrong path we always recover and learn from the bad choices that we make in life.
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