"Road Tattoos are placed at locations of personal significance and are composed of cultural designs previously appropriated to mark skin. Once the design is drawn on the road, names or other specific information is painted within the design, a prayer is said and the design is painted in, covering over the names. They are subtle, usually close in color to the roadway, but made with reflective paint causing them to appear and disappear with passing light. Eventually traffic and weather conditions dissolve them into the road." Steed Taylor website
Check out the Blessing for Dedication and pictures of the road tattoo's creation.
Blessing for Dedication
For this community in transition we ask for grace and ease. As it moves into a brighter future, let us remember its noble past and recognize the honored place it holds in the history of our great country, the prosperity of this region and the development of New Jersey.
As the most valued element of a community is always its members, let the hardworking citizens who came before us share our praise. With great effort, they labored in the factories and businesses still evident around us, allowing this community to flourish. With great affection, they labored to make this community a home. May our thanksgiving and gratitude reach into the past and embrace them.
As this community heads into the future, let it move forward with dignity. May all of its members be included in the prosperity to come. May neighbors and coworkers, parents and grandparents, police and children, teachers and officials, artists and laborers, politicians and those in greatest need, all find inclusion in the good fortune ahead. With this work of art, we honor the past, the present and future of Orange, New Jersey. Amen.
- Steed Taylor
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I ♥ it, I wish I was there lol I really do admire it when I pass it
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