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This morning, our friend Rebecca at Calipidder alerted us via a Facebook post to a woman named Casey Nocket who had traveled to the west coast from New York for a few weeks. Ms. Nocket had been enjoying her time in the outdoors so much that she decided to document her trip on Instagram. And apparently Nocket was so moved by all the natural beauty she saw that she just had to paint all over it.
Okay, as a nature lover this REALLY ****** me right off! Look at some of her "art work" (which looks like kindergarten doodles)
Crater Lake National Park:
Yosemite National Park:
Death Valley’s Telescope Peak:
Zion National Park:
Canyonlands National Park:
I don't know what's more disgusting, the fact she's essentially graffitying (is that even a word?) national parks or the fact her "art work" would be something a kindergartner would view as garbage!
Last time I was in Sedona, I cleaned up a mess that some people ( presumably teens, because they do stupid **** all the time) I had some hand sanitizer that I used to clean up the graffiti, and then I rebuilt the cairn that they had knocked down.
Fortunately, it appears she only colored the rocks somehow. The paint can be removed.
Sadly, this sort of thing is all too common. Often enough, rocks are permanently engraved. Or the writing is done over prehistoric pictographs. Or some idiot decides to drive all over something - like one of the ancient intaglios near Blythe, in the California desert. These are large figures of people carved into the desert stone-pavement that are best viewed from the air, being over 100 feet long. And if you see them, you also get to see the deep tracks of someone who thought it would be fun to race his truck all over them decades ago.
Then there's the Boy Scout troop from Utah last year, who's leader decided to topple a top-heavy rock formation so it didn't fall over and injure someone - in Goblin Valley State Park, which was created specifically to preserve those formations. They filmed the toppling, whooping it up about how fun it was. Yep, the moron posted that on social media, too.
Back to this case, this woman faces some stiff fines.
Even better, the story is being widely publicized, which is a good thing.
The work looks like chalk pastels which will wash away. But might be oil pastels (looks like she's holding an oil crayon) which ain't cool.
Most of that vandalism was done with acrylic paint.
From what I read somewhere, but can't find now, she is very sorry... Yeah, she is sorry that the feds are considering felony charges. However, earlier, before she deleted her tumblr account, she was defending herself as an artist:
The Internet rage grew with Nocket's apparent lack of remorse.
A painting she posted on her Instagram account of a blue-haired lady on a rock overlooking Oregon's Crater Lake prodded one of her followers to ask if she was using paint or chalk. Nocket responded that it was acrylic: "I know, I'm a bad person."
In response to angry posts on her Tumblr site early Thursday, she defended the paintings, saying, "It's art, not vandalism. I am an artist."
Nocket's Instagram account was deleted as of Thursday, but sites like modernhiker.com, which broke the story of the vandalism, were able to post all her Instagram photos, including one of her mid-sketch in Canyonlands.
Nocket's hubris — posting her crimes online — has enabled investigators as they build a case. And it's not the first time a Web search has uncovered vandalism of public lands.
Oh, honey, if my drawings are as good as yours are, you are NOT an artist.
I'm fascinated by why people are upset by this. It's paint on rocks. Sure, if someone's painting over some prehistoric carvings or paintings, that would be terrible. But if it's just a random rock ...it's paint on a rock. For the people saying it's graffiti, guess what? It is, but so are those invaluable prehistoric paintings that we cherish. Am I saying she should do it? No. Is she an artist? Not in my eyes, but neither are lots of people who other people do consider to be artists.
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