We Found the Hidden Art! - Part Two

When I came to my senses after the owl-in-face experience in part one of the story, I found that I had an interesting little document in my hand. To be exact, a doc in a ziplock bag. It is actually very ironic that the owl was in the sign because the cracksinthepavement.com art piece appears to draw a parrallel between the Stardust sign and a tree. The piece is signed by Katherine E. Bash and William L. Fox, a past Lannan Writer in residence. The booklet is about 4 pages long and on the front is a library index card for "Varieties of Visual Experience" by Edmund Burke Feldman. On the first page is printed 'trE (TKST) - MARFA. The first portion of this is the pronunciation for tree. I haven't the foggiest what TKST means. Pages 2 and 3 are where the heart of the info is; various definitions for tree, from the obvious to the diagramatical. The back cover has the artists' signatures and a link to cracksinthepavement site.

In the artists' statement at cracksinthepavement.com, both writers tell us about wonderful experiences climbing trees, Ms. Bash in her childhood and Mr. Fox right here in Marfa:

"There are no rocks to climb in Marfa, Texas, a town in which I have found myself happily in residence as a visiting writer. But there is an Arizona cypress with which I have developed a relationship, a forty-foot-high specimen planted in mid-20th century that offers a way up over the horizon. On flat ground a person of average height can see about twenty-five square miles of the surrounding terrain. By climbing that tree I can encompass very nearly a hundred times that territory... I sit in the cypress, as careful as I can be not to bruise its thin bark, and listen to what voices are brought me by the wind in the afternoon."

Makes me want to climb my own tree in my yard (which I'm going to do right after I finish here.) But part of me thinks maybe this booklet is yet a clue. Should I search for his tree? Should I find and look through the Feldman book? The answer is yes. Whether it's a clue or not, something is there.