{"id":784,"date":"2026-05-25T15:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/termite.org\/placesofpower\/?p=784"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:36:13","slug":"el-banco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/termite.org\/placesofpower\/el-banco\/","title":{"rendered":"El Banco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Raul Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell — here we have a bench which was made this year from a tree which was recently cut from the rear garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces were brought over, Iris asked for them and Iris told me: “I need for you to build me a bench.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the bench, I actually put a lot of thought into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked myself, ” how is this bench going to turn out?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was because the pieces were all different sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had many pieces. Some were long, others short, but they did not make a whole piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the idea came to me to place them in this pattern, a pattern where you could sit on it, not quite comfortably, but it was a bench. This was possible with the help of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea came from Iris, but I am the one who built the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas are very important, with ideas we can always continue inventing things in this garden, things that are visual, things that are able to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started at the age of nine when I was in Puerto Rico with my uncle. Every time I would see a shape on an object, I would envision what could come out of that shape. I would look at a certain shape on wooden furniture and I would think to myself, ” you can make a face out of it, or perhaps you can make two faces out of that”, so I began to envision ideas at a very early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I think to myself: there are many things I have not yet done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a mixture of many people. According to my sister, all of this is African, but we are a race of many colors, and we are trying to create things which bring peace. We want everyone coming here to the garden to feel at peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it is in fact a very beautiful garden, we have everything here, plants, and what God has created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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