@mattblaze Have you been to any of the water temples in the Bay Area?

@mattblaze (My personal nails-on-chalkboard feature in the landscape is cellphone towers ‘disguised’ as trees — they fall straight into an arboreal Uncanny Valley and draw my attention, where an unadorned tower or a real tree would go unremarked.)

@mattblaze I think we will, in the same way gasometers or electricity pylons now have admirers. A lot of ‘strictly functional’ infrastructure seems to quickly become invisible (I think it’s partly sensory adaptation and partly opacity ie seeing it but not knowing what it does) and eventually appreciated. But trying to make it decorative seems to mostly backfire, since invisibility is no longer an option and it’s hard to do well.