This is...
A topographical and historical map of the island of Manhattan.
Made of (in case it isn't clear from the photo) plastic bottle tops.
Which my mother saves for him. As is clear from the photo, she's been saving them for him for... a long time.
At my request, we keep the collection at her house.
Anyway, that's the landscape view.
Here's a closeup (all photos taken by the Pig):
The blue represents the water, over which the Dutch traveled, to establish the New Amsterdam colony.
The red represents are the lowlands upon which the Dutch came (already inhabited, Guinea Pig #2 points out, by Native Americans).
The white represents the time after the colony was purchased by the British.
The tall green ones are the trees alongside what is now Morningside Heights.
Here's the Pig's favorite vantage point.
(Dunno why, really.)
And the tall, multicolored columns are today's skyscrapers.
It's all very vivid in his mind.
And it brings vividly to mind a passage in Learning Outside the Lines, in which Jonathan Mooney describes how he uses color -- color highlighters, colored post-it notes, colored index cards, and ultimately colored LEGOS -- to organize his thoughts before writing.
I can't, honestly, say that I get it.
But... vive la difference.
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