FROST PARK: SLEESTAK TEST PATTERN

"Sleestak Test Pattern" by Troy's Work Table. Frost Park Chalk Off Challenge 6:19. Friday 09 August 2013.

Sleestak, Sleestak, Enik (the Altrusian).
Time portal crystal control pedestal panel.

OUR GUIDE TO THE ABYSS

"Boys and men like Huck [Finn] don't write, they're too busy satiated by life itself, a life in which one fishes not for whales but for catfish in the river that splits the United States in two, to the east the dawn, the civilization, everything that strives desperately to be history and to be storied, and to the west the clarity of blindness and myth, everything that lies beyond books and history, everything that we fear in our innermost selves."

 —page 297, from "Our Guide to the Abyss," as found in Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño.

THE WET COLLECTION

"Handwritten notes line a drawer of eggs from a donated private collection. One note, written in a deliberate script in faded brown ink, reads: 'Collected under a clump of grass approximately 3 feet from a pasture road. A.S. Wilson, 1919.' This in a curving, fountain-pen script nobody has anymore. What now of the pasture road? Is it there still; is it a superhighway? The egg, so fragile, and its clump of grass remain after the man and the world he noted so carefully have vanished."

—page 5, from "The Wet Collection," as found in The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis.

FROST PARK: YOU'RE ON FIRE

Detail of "You're on Fire (Combustible Head)" by Troy's Work Table. Frost Park Chalk Off Challenge 6:16. Friday 19 July 2013.

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FROST PARK: THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT YOU

"They're All Going to Laugh at You" by Troy's Work Table.

Frost Park Chalk Off 6:7 was once again without theme.

TWT decided to play on Stephen King's Carrie (book and movie), as well as the Adam Sandler comedy routine (and comedy album), They're All Gonna Laugh at You. Plus, it never hurts to sneak an octopus into one's work.

SWALLOWED

Blue sky is swallowed up by storm clouds, early evening, northeast Puyallup, Washington. Looking toward Tacoma.

BLUE SKY and COTTONY CLOUDS

Blue sky and cottony clouds, late afternoon, Edgewood, Washington.

The day is warm, nearly perfect.

Work has ended for the day and I am heading home to read, relax, and enjoy an ale.

FROST PARK: THE VISITORS

Frost Park Chalk Off 6:6 didn't have a theme, so TWT decided to chalk what his body felt like, specifically his nervous system. The Visitors seemed to be crawling through his skin—flashes of numbness, tingling, and burning. This is what TWT imagines them to look like. But what are they saying? If only he could speak their language.

MAPLE TREE

Maple tree, afternoon, Brownsville, Washington.

FROST PARK: TACOMUPPETS

Frost Park Chalk Off 6:5 was themed around Sesame Street. Therefore, TWT created a Frost Park homage to the Sesame Street sign, with some of the (now) Tacoma Muppets, or Tacomuppets (not Taco Muppets) surrounding it.