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Water Weathers the Rock
WHEN

June 2022
WHAT

Sculpture with plastic beads and epoxyWHO

Created by Ryan Anderson’s high school Advanced English Class: Brandon C., Violet S. and Javier U.  WHERE

Outside the door from the lunch line to the playground

In spring 2021, Ryan Anderson’s Advanced English class wrote a poem about moments that “cracked them open” and made them stronger. 

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Water weathers the rock, gems fill the crack

Here is space to feel safe, to be wrong.

She could imagine herself in the future. 

He didn’t know what it felt like to get older,

Time flew by.

When she couldn’t get her mind out, stuck. 

Their favorite thing to do was to play in the fields.


Students used small gems to repair a crack in the sidewalk near the playground. The crack, like a miniature river, invites us to think about moments that are painful yet make us stronger and more resilient. 



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