Gasworks Park

This is Gasworks Park in Seattle. It's one of my favorite places to wander and think. It reminds me of the Forgotten Works, a place in Richard Brautigan's, In Watermelon Sugar. I imagine myself in Brautigans head sometimes as I mill around the old plant that has an incredible view of Seattle's skyline.

Richard Brautigan was a poet/novelist that was born in the pacific northwest. He spent much of his life in San Francisco during the Beat movement writing poetry and handing it out on street corners trying to get his words read. His best known work, Troutfishing in America, brought him some national attention bringing some acclaim to his writings when it was published in 1967. He eventually moved to Montana and lived several years before he took his own life in 1984. Brautigan's writings seem to wade in the surreal and bask in the beat ideals of defying mainstream politics and culture.

Machine and nature now coexist in a heap of curiosity, waiting patiently for someone to identify with it. What was once a gift of a promising future now lays rusting in defeat where we put things that are best forgotten.