ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 1月27日 02時31分

Everything around us — even the most trifling — tells a story, has a rich narrative. Causing us to ponder, learn. Question. Discover.

While in Armenia last year, @anushbabajanyan and I would drive for hours around the countryside while working on a @ナショナルジオグラフィック story, set to arrive on newsstands in April of this year.

(Be sure to follow Anush Babajanyan here on IG for beautiful visual poems of Armenia, the Caucasus and beyond)

The first time passing a small farm, I was immediately drawn to the most strangest art installation I’d seen — a dismantled car, completely stuffed with sticks.

Why was it there?

Who had placed thousands of sticks, crammed into this vehicle, gently listing in a field just on the outskirts of #Gyumri?

For more than a week, I could not get this near Christo-esque art sculpture out of the mind. We would return, repeatedly, to photograph its hushed beauty even though the car and all its sticks had nothing to do with the National Geographic story we were working on.

What I learned is the tale which often happens whenever we let go of ourselves, allowing to fall into the unknown. The whimsical. The poetry of all that is around us.

Here with the Tale of the Mercedes Benz...

Around 7-10 years ago, the original owner of this automobile saved up all his money to buy a 1982 Mercedes 300D. Humbled, he traveled overland by bus and train all the way to Germany, steering his elegant new car back to Armenia. After a week of driving with pride back in his homeland, he tragically got into an accident, an unfortunate mishap in which the other driver did not survive. After a court found him negligent of the accident, he was sentence for a period of time in jail. For safekeeping, the car was given into the care of his neighbor, Martiros Gasparyan. Because of high court costs and bills, Martiros had to start selling off pieces of the car, as spare parts. This slow scavenging lasted a few years. When the original owner was finally released from jail, only a shell of his original car remained, today being a storage shed for firewood, left as a tilting piece of art in the field of a farm in the outskirts of Gyumri, Armenia.

#Armenia #car #mercedes #firewood

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