South Waterfront Portal Free-Write: M
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007(Free-writes are a creative action utilised by the M.O.S.T. to explore trains of thought. A subject is proposed, and then that subject is written on for ten minutes without editorializing. This is my free-write from our recent South Waterfront field trip. -M)
South Waterfront sure seems to be carved out of nothing - right as you get past the Ross Island bridge, there it is, gleaming and new right in front of you. The passing under the Ross Island on foot (I’ll post photos later) really seems like a portal, which is why I requested the O, S, and T to walk under it with me. And on the east side there is of course the natural barrier of the river. On the west side, the land abruptly rises to meet - what is that, Macadam? - and certainly stops being part of the neighborhood. There doesn’t seem to be a south “side” per se, it just seems to drift off into a state of not being South Waterfront. In any case, I’ve never been in such an intensely delineated neighborhood in my life. We explored it, as a group, for the second time on Friday night, and to my own pleasant surprise, we found a lot of fun there. We participated in some collective time travel and visited the future park; I accidentally discovered some future barriers that clothes-lined me. We further developed the M.O.S.T. break and re-group. Perhaps one day it will be referred to as the South Waterfront method? Who knows? We found a stoop (stoops are incredibly important to neighborhoods) that was actually out of South Waterfront, but just across the street, and found some good psychic activity there. I located a discarded street sign and re-purposed it in the middle of the future park. Local Access Only.