to come across these beautiful big flowers in the sidewalk while walking along a stream in Jegidong, Seoul.
[There were also flower tiles in some of the sidewalks in my own neighborhood of Goyang, but they were small images inlaid into individual tiles just a few inches across, and for some reason a year or so ago the city chose to pull them all out (why, oh why?)]
Then as I walked on I saw the images were all elongated along the y (vertical) axis, and realized it's (presumably) so that people walking by the stream would first see them foreshortened to their proper proportions as they walked along the narrow sidewalk. How thoughtful!
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