April 2015, and here was the context.
April 2022, and I’ve heard rumors about context but no confirmation. It was pure serendipity that I was in roughly the same area of the Staten Island boro, enjoying springtime warmth and watching the sixth boro.
’15. The reversal of paint is interesting. There may be semiotic significance, but as yet, I can’t interpret.
’22.
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Know that flag? It’s not the one I expected. I’ll let you guess.
’22
All photos, 2015 and 2022, WVD.
And that’s the flag of the Comoros Islands.
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April 16, 2022 at 12:37 pm
Tom Turner
Wait, what??? Are we slipping into parallel dimensions? This will probably cause someone a Mandela Effect moment. Fantastic that you were in nearly the same spot to document this so well.
April 16, 2022 at 12:54 pm
tugster
Thx, and particularly because 2015 was likely the last time prior to yesterday that Jane M transited the sixth boro.
April 16, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Phil Little
Hmmm. Semiotic. Hadda look that one up. ” The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.”
It’s the sign of an educated person if you have to go to Google to find out what he said!!
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April 17, 2022 at 3:57 am
tugster
I couldn’t resist that one; years ago i had a classmate whose husband Greg was working on a PhD in Semiotics. I had to look that one up, and still didn’t quite understand until i learned that his advisor had a key role in a feature of Voyager 1 that was intended to signal our presence on our planet: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-1/in-depth/ also, Greg went to conferences where Umberto Eco, novelist (Name of the Rose) and semiotician would present: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco Greg eventually gave up academia and any hopes of completing the PhD; instead he went into admin of a high tech manufacturing firm.