What's that all about?

[JonathanD]

So we got up to a place were no one goes as you have to wade through tonnes of thick vegetation and undergrowth to get there. I have a favourite tree that is high up on the ridge and overlooks the valley. Pretty cool as the rain cloads were in the valley below us...

Admired the view and the silence while we cooked some coffee and some chilli....

Then I looked behind me, and I really have to wonder what on earth compels a person to paint 'nanas all over a tree?

 

[beenn]

I think it would look quite cool somewhere else ..but its just the wrong place

 

[Paganwolf]

Its the banana liberation front, they get bloomin everywhere!!

 

[Retired Member southey]

Banksey?Bananas, in pyjamas, are coming down the stairs!

 

[Robbi]

Gorrilla trap ?

 

[Man of Tanith]

who knows its a bit odd
but it added a bit of randomness to your day which is never a bad thing

 

[Retired Member southey]

What did the chalk taste of?

 

[greensurfingbear]

you know I quite like it.... put a smile on my face

 

[JonathanD]

What did the chalk taste of?

It was paint man. Someone painted that on there. In the middle of nowhere rght in the middle of one of mine and Emms special places. And they drew 'nanas all over it!

 

[mountainm]

Pistachio man is trying to reach out to you...

 

[Toddy]

Looks like a game sign. 'Find the banana tree', kind of thing. Was there nothing else that looked a bitty markerish around ? It looks like spray through stencil stuff

cheers,
Toddy

 

[JonathanD]

Looks like a game sign. 'Find the banana tree', kind of thing. Was there nothing else that looked a bitty markerish around ? It looks like spray through stencil stuff

cheers,
Toddy

Nothing else anywhere. I thought it was stencilled at first, but they are all different. They also continue up about 15 feet and all around the trunk.

 

[Toddy]

I've done a fair bit of stencilling JD, those are awfully accurately sized to be much else The blurred bits are normal on something so textured.
That's a heck of a height up a tree to paint though.

Funny old world sometimes

M

 

[wizard]

It might be the crop circle makers have branched out into fruiting up the forest. Sad though to find such vandalism. I say set some camera traps or claymores.

 

[plastic-ninja]

I know that tag.It's my Nanna : she's a geriatric delinquent.
Commiserations that they found your fave spot though JD.In an urban setting I think it would make me smile if on a lamp-post or a traffic warden!
Simon

 

[Pict]

I've lived in Brazil most of my adult life and I can assure you that is an English banana tree.

My serious guess is that there is a geocache nearby.

 

[Karl82]

well we atleast know some monkey did that.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Jon, I thought I had some rum sorts living round my way but yours are certifiable.

 

[Stew]

Now that's bizarre!

 

[blacktimberwolf]

I think Toddy's right about the stencils as they are too uniformal in size which would be impossible if painted by hand though I do suspect a certain artistic liberty on some of them though i.e.finger smudging......What I can tell you is that the two in the middle, facing us, were the first to be done (on each side of the stencil) the top one was the very first ...(which will give an indication of the perpetrators height, as we always start at the most comfortable position for us)... then the others ( that is the ones with the pointy bits towards the left) working up & moving to the right ( which suggests a right handed person) ........ they were sprayed on with a certain design or concept in mind but with out a mathmatical or artistic bend ( for bend read, talent) then the stencil was turned over & the previosly mentioned nana was sprayed (again at the comfort height) & so on.& so forth..... looks like the stencil was getting pretty tired further up & towards the left which indicates that the 'artist' stood back to see where he was going to put the last ones ones, I think they were all done by the same guy( with a ladder of some kind).....not very clear all that I know !
Why ? can't say, though Toddy's suggestion of some sort of game sounds plausable, could have been done for a photo shoot too or a competion " how many nanas can you spray on a trunk in a given time, but they are too evenly spaced for such a frenzy. It was certainly planned & done for a reason,

I must admit the effect ain't too bad, certainly doesn't clash with the surroundings (esthetically speaking)



thanks for listening




blacktimberwolf.... specialist in post - neolithic tree bark banana paintings.