The Allentown Volunteer Fire Company
offered 700 feet of four-inch hose, free to a good home.
Tammy suggested it would make for a good stretch of walkway ...
but all I could think of was "Civil tapestry 5" (2012) by Theaster Gates.
(now in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
I do not mean to make light of Gates's allusion in this work to the history of the civil rights movement in the United States and the use of fire hoses to spray protestors during demonstrations. The collection entry linked above gives a brief description of the history of the works that Gates did with decommissioned fire hoses.
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